breadth
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Short-term breadth readings only occasionally signal a pullback, and usually just a minor one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
When the market gets those inflows into laggards, breadth naturally expands.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026
The breadth of Patekar's career showcases the wide range of his work.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Analysts say the market’s narrow breadth poses a risk to investors, with returns reliant on a small group of stocks that can swing wildly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Soon after daylight they began to hear and smell hrududil passing, not so far away as the breadth of a small field.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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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
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The number of illusive renderings of prints taken from the same finger, is greatly increased by such trifles as the relative breadths of their respective lineations and the differences in their depths of tint.
From Finger Prints by Sir Francis Galton
So huge is the mosque that the eyes are deceived within it, and can no longer measure heights or breadths with accuracy.
From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Robert (Robert Smythe) Hichens
Two breadths of blue cloth divided by one of yellow, would produce a blazonable coat, ‘Azure, a pale or.’
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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