breadth
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Rethinking the fractured and overly extensive breadth of the paddock and pits complex - which covers a vastly greater distance than anywhere else - would also be a good idea.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
"If something feels risky, try and do it as you'll learn more from it and it'll build breadth around your CV that you didn't have previously."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Such work could enter an encyclopedic museum like LACMA, Govan said, but the Lucas Museum offers a breadth and depth not found elsewhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Although the breadth of Ms. Rubel’s reading is impressive, readers might rather hear what the author has to say than a range of academic theorists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
But in spite of his immense wisdom and his mysterious breadth, he had a human burden, an earthly condition that kept him involved in the small problems of daily life.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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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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 Claudia B. Kidwell
Seaming.—A narrow openwork insertion, gimp or braiding, with parallel sides, used for joining two breadths of linen, instead of sewing them directly the one to the other.
From Lace, Its Origin and History by Samuel L. Goldenberg
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
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