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an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends
surprised by the width of his power and influence in the oil business
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Recent Examples of widths
Choose from seven colors and sizes 5–12, with both standard and wide widths available.
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Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026
Others, like a rotating display, have slots of different heights and widths to store a variety of items.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
Nystrom researches the draft tirelessly, keeping a spreadsheet of data (ages, game stats, hand widths) on nearly two thousand players, and publicly ranks his top five hundred—nearly twice as many as will actually be drafted.
—Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
The North Star is about thirty degrees from Dubhe, or roughly three of your fist-widths held at arm’s length.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2026
The sun's powerful magnetic dynamo that drives sunspot activity and contributes to unleashing powerful solar flares and coronal mass ejections has been confirmed as existing 124,000 miles (200,000 kilometers) beneath the sun's visible surface — equivalent to 16 Earth widths' deep.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2026
The reconfiguration uses no physical barriers between the bike lane and travel lanes, and lane widths won’t meaningfully change.
—Ian Hembree, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
Thankfully, if you’re set on one silhouette in particular, the brand offers several different widths of the same style for customization.
—Noah Kaufman, Architectural Digest, 7 Mar. 2026
The book covers pocket, knee, crotch and belt loop repair techniques, taking in and expanding the waist, hemming, adjusting leg widths, transforming jeans to shorts and skirts, splicing.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 18 Feb. 2026
Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026
Others, like a rotating display, have slots of different heights and widths to store a variety of items.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
Nystrom researches the draft tirelessly, keeping a spreadsheet of data (ages, game stats, hand widths) on nearly two thousand players, and publicly ranks his top five hundred—nearly twice as many as will actually be drafted.
—Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
The North Star is about thirty degrees from Dubhe, or roughly three of your fist-widths held at arm’s length.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2026
The sun's powerful magnetic dynamo that drives sunspot activity and contributes to unleashing powerful solar flares and coronal mass ejections has been confirmed as existing 124,000 miles (200,000 kilometers) beneath the sun's visible surface — equivalent to 16 Earth widths' deep.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2026
The reconfiguration uses no physical barriers between the bike lane and travel lanes, and lane widths won’t meaningfully change.
—Ian Hembree, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
Thankfully, if you’re set on one silhouette in particular, the brand offers several different widths of the same style for customization.
—Noah Kaufman, Architectural Digest, 7 Mar. 2026
The book covers pocket, knee, crotch and belt loop repair techniques, taking in and expanding the waist, hemming, adjusting leg widths, transforming jeans to shorts and skirts, splicing.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 18 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for widths
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Above these scopes, the meteor is surrounded by quite an impressive view.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
5 June 2026
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Specify in scopes of work and editorial guidelines that detector scores are advisory, not pass/fail metrics.—
Uri Samet,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Most of the month encourages you to rest, reflect and process what has been going on behind the scenes, especially since Cancer season brings focus to your (12th house) private life and subconscious realms.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
1 June 2026
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Some of these approaches require meticulous scholarship and technical proficiency; others, an attunement to the invisible realms of feeling and folklore.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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Hunt, Avantika, and Angus are especially good as overgrown kids trying, to varying extents, to hide their softness beneath ambition.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
1 June 2026
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Throughout its history the company has gone through the ebbs and flows of the jewelry sector, impacted to various extents by wars, macroeconomic volatility and geopolitical disruption.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
27 May 2026
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Price per vial ranges from $9,000 to $14,000, but insurance nearly always covers antivenom and snake bite care.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
8 June 2026
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That model could then be used to identify a set of exact values (within the ranges used in the simulations) for all the parameters that would result in the lowest error.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
8 June 2026
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The platform uses a standardized battery enclosure capable of housing either lithium-ion or sodium-ion cells without changing the pack’s physical dimensions.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
8 June 2026
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Falling Prices Can Mean Falling Incomes One of the most important dimensions of AI’s economic impact may involve what happens to measured output when technology causes prices to fall.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
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Their clean collisions would allow more precise measurements of scattering amplitudes, making the FCC ultrasensitive to indirect signs of new physics.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
26 Jan. 2026
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Second, the large amplitudes of the gravitational waves needed to generate the events that Weber was claiming a detection of would provide more energy than could possibly cosmically exist in any-and-all forms of radiation combined; the Universe as a whole ruled his interpretation out.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Widths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/widths. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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