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breadth

[bredth, bretth, breth] / brɛdθ, brɛtθ, brɛθ /




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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

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

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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