Thesaurus results for WIDTHS

widths

noun

plural of width

as in scopes

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. —

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

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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
The defense argued the searches were outside the scopes of the various search policies and police were illegally looking for incriminating evidence rather than performing legitimate safety or inventory searches.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 18 May 2026