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
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
“You didn’t try out last year, did you?” asked Harry, taking note of the breadth of McLaggen and thinking that he would probably block all three goal hoops without even moving.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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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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If there hadn't been close on to two full breadths in each of his legs, I never could have got it out.
From In a Mysterious Way by Anne Warner
Paddle wheels for engines having a single crank sometimes have their floats of varying breadths, so as to keep the speed of revolution as uniform as possible.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The hills again opened, and there were flourishing breadths of turnips, and people digging potatoes, an article of food and export which was introduced by the missionaries forty years ago.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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