breadth
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"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
This is a crucial distinction because many commentators in effect have been focusing only on the breadth of Wall Street’s bullishness, and concluding that a top must be near.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
John and Laura Overdeck’s divorce is giving the world a peek into the lives of the ultrarich, and the breadth of the onetime couple’s enormous wealth at stake in a New Jersey courthouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Scott’s career has swept the breadth of genres.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Outsourcing news bulletins to India also allows Reuters to extend the breadth of its reporting to more small-cap companies, companies it was not cost-efficient for Reuters to follow before with higher-paid journalists in New York.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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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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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
Unploughed, unsown, by scythe unshorn, The poor forsaken farm-fields lie, Once rich and rife with golden corn And pale-green breadths of rye.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle
Two breadths of Turkish tapestry hung down over the doorway of the reception-room, thus obscuring its interior.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
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