breadth
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Yes, there could be sharp, countertrend rallies, but these breadth indicators will not improve to buy signals until there are at least several days of positive breadth.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
“The proof point we want is adoption breadth beyond the core cooler customer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Rethinking the fractured and overly extensive breadth of the paddock and pits complex - which covers a vastly greater distance than anywhere else - would also be a good idea.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Such work could enter an encyclopedic museum like LACMA, Govan said, but the Lucas Museum offers a breadth and depth not found elsewhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The fish may be monsters, and you may be afloat on a doomed vessel—a pirate ship, perhaps—unaware of the breadth and the depth of the peril it sails upon.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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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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She threw off the carpet slippers, and reached under the breadths of the silver gray skirt for her new shoes.
From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Sarah Bell Hackley
It is of unequal breadths, being from a quarter of a mile to a mile wide across from the harbour to the lake, and runs in length to the east five or six miles.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
As the width of the materials, of which a bathing gown is made, varies, it is impossible to say of how many breadths it should consist.
From Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States by Claudia B. Kidwell
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