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
The breadth of Patekar's career showcases the wide range of his work.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Stock market breadth started to thin in mid-August, as Treasury yields pushed higher.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 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
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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She threw off the carpet slippers, and reached under the breadths of the silver gray skirt for her new shoes.
From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Sarah Bell Hackley
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
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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