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breadth

[bredth, bretth, breth] / brɛdθ, brɛtθ, brɛθ /




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There has been an outpouring of messages from politicians and party leaders across the breadth of the political spectrum.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The book also includes 30 “recipes from Old Philadelphia,” ranging from catfish and waffles to South Philly-style tomato pie, that demonstrate the breadth of Philadelphia’s multicultural, multiracial, ever-changing culinary landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

When the market gets those inflows into laggards, breadth naturally expands.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026

“Every year, we have this freak-out about breadth, but the correction that’s supposed to go along with it doesn’t happen.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026

For the breadth of a river we stared without speaking.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

John B. Read’s lighting now makes less marvelous effects from the depths and breadths of the Met stage.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2014

Meg, who went shopping in the afternoon and got a ‘sweet blue muslin’, had discovered, after she had cut the breadths off, that it wouldn’t wash, which mishap made her slightly cross.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Skull: Braincase less inflated; nasals truncated posteriorly as opposed to rounded; zygomatic and mastoidal breadths less; rostrum shorter but narrower; upper incisors narrower and shorter.

From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant

The breadths of satin are put together so that the stripes meet in points at the seams.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

Skull: Long and slender; rostrum long and narrow; zygomatic and mastoidal breadths slight; palatal pits deep; upper incisors narrow; basioccipital wide.

From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant


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