breadth
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The breadth and depth of AstraZeneca’s drug pipeline means those fears seem misplaced and the U.K. company is unlikely to share Roche’s fate, the analysts add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Even for armchair fans watching at home, the breadth and expense of television subscriptions can be a barrier to accessing sport.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
“The breadth of the rally has narrowed,” said UBS Wealth Management Chief Investment Officer Mark Haefele.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Stock market breadth started to thin in mid-August, as Treasury yields pushed higher.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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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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A full moon rose over the forest presently, and they pushed on across stretches of glistening silver and breadths of inky gloom.
From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss
The regulation bunting as used in the navy is made in 9 in. widths, and the flag classes in size according to the number of breadths of bunting of which it is composed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
Tympanic bullae larger and markedly more inflated; nasals longer; zygomatic and mastoidal breadths greater; rostrum longer and more depressed; upper incisors longer and wider; molariform teeth smaller.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant
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