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 Accessibility All areas of the hotel are accessible by wheelchair, with compliant door widths. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026 The simple sandals are padded with memory foam, feature non-slip outsoles, and come in both standard and wide widths. — Mia Huelsbeck, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026 From that glossy start emerges an elaborate, colossal bun composed of braids in varying widths—from pencil-thin plaits woven around the base to chunkier folds making up the lion’s share of the height-enhancing sculpture. — Marci Robin, Allure, 29 June 2026 Like other Birkenstock shoes, its strap is adjustable, but the shoe also comes in two widths—one for narrow feet and one for wider feet. — Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2026 These priority zones focus on pedestrian traffic by installing crosswalks at all intersections, banning right turns on red lights, increasing crossing time, shading sidewalks, lowering speed limits and reducing driving lane widths. — Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026 Once the ramp reopens, traffic lane widths will be reduced, officials said. — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026 The North Star should be about three of your fist-widths at arm’s length to the lower right of Dubhe and Merak. — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 14 June 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

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Noun

Avian scopes are typically below 20, and so are the scopes for fishes.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
Permissions are increasingly derived at runtime from natural-language intent in ways that OAuth scopes were never designed to govern.

— Harsh Singhal, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026

Definition of scopes

Noun

These include rituals related to cosmic realms, guidance for navigating the challenges of daily life and even the worship of powerful deities.

— Michael Naparstek, The Conversation, 6 July 2026
All three have released solo albums that further expand their palettes, moving into ambient (Vida), experimental (Stardrum), and singer/songwriter (Epstein) realms.

— Reed Jackson, SPIN, 3 July 2026

Definition of realms

Noun

Among the concert recordings are three full concerts being released for the very first time and several more full recordings of shows that have been excerpted, to varying extents, for past releases.

— Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026
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

Definition of extents

Noun

The joint technology could simultaneously extend EV driving ranges, slash charging times, and lower production costs.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026
Many animals can also hear in ranges outside of what humans are capable of, Heather Kostick, associate director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media, told CNN.

— Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 5 July 2026

Definition of ranges

Noun

Even more than Stinnerbom’s cardamom bun — which some praise as the best in Oslo — the more elemental cinnamon notes, enhanced with lemon zest and juice, allow the sourdough’s multifaceted dimensions to come through.

— Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
Unlike conventional porous carbons, which interact only weakly with polysulfides, COFs possess periodically arranged pores whose dimensions, chemical environments, and electronic characteristics can be programmed by design.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 4 July 2026

Definition of dimensions

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But the physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed and collaborators realized that there were more compact ways to understand these scattering amplitudes.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 June 2026
The amplitudes from different signals add together, so the values those amplitudes represent also simply add together.

— Ana I. Pérez-Neira, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2026

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