breadth
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Increasingly, individuals – particularly earlier in their careers, she says - want to build a breadth of experience faster, rather than follow a single, linear path.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
You want an adviser who has the financial aspirations of Warren Buffett — not the literary breadth of Ernest Hemingway.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
That breadth is particularly notable given how closely Graham became associated with Trump during the president’s two terms in office.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
It seems daunting dialing in that depth and breadth within “The Pitt’s” hour-by-hour format.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Glancing up, he saw with a start that his fingers were a hair’s breadth away from a large splayed hand that had been hammer-etched deep into the stone.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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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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Two breadths of Turkish tapestry hung down over the doorway of the reception-room, thus obscuring its interior.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
As the width of the materials, of which a bathing gown is made, varies, it is impossible to say of how many breadths it should consist.
From Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States by Kidwell, Claudia B.
They are markedly smaller in every measurement taken, except zygomatic and mastoidal breadths, and extension of premaxillae posterior to nasals.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.
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