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breadth

[bredth, bretth, breth] / brɛdθ, brɛtθ, brɛθ /




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With its exhaustive narrative breadth and action set pieces that only a budget of a cool $250 million could afford, the fact that “The Odyssey” exists at all is intended to feel like a miracle.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

Widdecombe's death and the desire from Farage to discuss the safety of all Reform politicians highlight the breadth of the challenge the authorities face in assessing the threat to those in public life.

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

“We are confident that Sunrise’s breadth of offerings will serve the needs of this community well,” said Philip Kroskin, head of real estate and senior vice president of investments at Sunrise.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

In his “Sand Reckoner,” Archimedes first calculated how many grains of sand would fit across a poppy seed, and then how many poppy seeds would span a finger's breadth.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

I've searched all lengths and breadths but this.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Where the bogs are not found there are wide breadths of forests, and very interesting as well as impassable forests they are.

From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by Spears, John R.

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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