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broaden

[brawd-n] / ˈbrɔd n /


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Now, he sees the growing popularity of genres such as amapiano - a popular South African house music subgenre - as an opportunity to broaden the scene.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

If those currently underappreciated sectors come through, earnings leadership could broaden out, she says.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

As a result, Milburn says children should be introduced to the world of work much earlier in their school journey, with dedicated space in the curriculum to "broaden horizons".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

“The listing is intended to improve Glencore’s profile with Australian investors, broaden its shareholder base, improve trading liquidity and enhance corporate financial flexibility,” the analyst says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

He believed that a New England college would best broaden his mind by exposing him to a range of ideas and viewpoints.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

The discovery broadens the known variety of magnetic minerals found in lunar samples.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

The revelation broadens a cyber incident that OpenAI described as unprecedented and which began when two of its models hacked Hugging Face, a site developers use to store and share AI models and code.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

The new framework broadens accountability to nonprofit institutions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

“When it broadens out, it makes it much more difficult to avoid for consumers. That’s really the concern going forward,” Yaros said, adding that it’s especially challenging for lower-income households.

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

It was about nine in the morning when Mammachi and Baby Kochamma got news of a white child’s body found floating downriver where the Meenachal broadens as it approaches the backwaters.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Lakota is predominantly known to be a bass music venue, but over the years it has broadened its programme to include Afrobeats and amapiano events.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Toyota didn’t foresee the rise in U.S. gas prices, Rose said, and that has broadened the RAV4’s appeal beyond hybrids’ coastal strongholds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The pandemic also broadened the idea of what service-based businesses could be, potentially opening new moneymaking prospects, he noted.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

But generative AI has vastly broadened the range of tasks that humans can successfully outsource.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

I suppose it was inevitable that as my word-base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Mail-in voting has become more popular over the last decade, with many states broadening access to it during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Revenue across the division was up 23% sequentially, driven by growing demand, a broadening scope of services and geographic expansion into Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

There are few signs inflation broadening has broadened so far.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Fundamental support for those stocks is broadening out, with manufacturing backlogs ramping up across machinery, fabricated metals and other categories, and manufacturing data showing a buildup in orders, strategists said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

If you won't take my word for it and have no vested interest in broadening your worldview, here's the most important takeaway: Iran is not pronounced i-RAN; it's pronounced e-RON.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi


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