breadth
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Readings of market breadth, which take into account how the majority of stocks are performing, rather than just those in major indexes, are negative on many fronts.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
What I’m referring to is simple breadth — the number of advancing issues minus the number of declining issues.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
The researchers say the register lays bare the breadth of which individuals contributed financially to the slave trade - from monarchs and politicians, to plumbers and clergymen.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The cataloged facts of her age, place of birth, and marital status suggest the breadth of a life he does not know, and he is seized with the curiosity to find her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
They don’t measure anything that we are accustomed to, like length, breadth, width, or time.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
Where the bogs are not found there are wide breadths of forests, and very interesting as well as impassable forests they are.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
Skull: Braincase less inflated; nasals truncated posteriorly as opposed to rounded; zygomatic and mastoidal breadths less; rostrum shorter but narrower; upper incisors narrower and shorter.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant
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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