breadth
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"The same is true of BBC Radio Wales, with, as we understand it, an equally significant reduction in the number of feature programmes, which will compromise the breadth of the programme offer."
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Indeed, it was only the second day since 1999 that the S&P 500 delivered breadth above 150 but was down more than 1%, according to Kaiser.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
An unusual occurrence with breadth and the stock market just occurred.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
In market parlance that’s known as good breadth.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Celaena threw her dagger, and the blade clanged as it landed a hair’s breadth from the one she’d already embedded in the bull’s-eye.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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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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At concerts, many dresses are seen either with flounces or apron-shaped fronts; that is to say, the front breadth has a much richer pattern, and different from the other breadths of the skirt.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
Still, in secret, I I clung to the hope of one day traversing the lengths and breadths and depths and heights of the world of science.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
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
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