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breadth

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




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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 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

We didn’t have much time to hang out these days, not with the ferocious pace I’d set and the breadth of my self-assigned duties: moodiness, anxiety for the safety of every person, insomnia...

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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

Paddle wheels for engines having a single crank sometimes have their floats of varying breadths, so as to keep the speed of revolution as uniform as possible.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

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

Skull: Long and slender; rostrum long and narrow; zygomatic and mastoidal breadths slight; palatal pits deep; upper incisors narrow; basioccipital wide.

From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant




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