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breadth

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




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What makes the CJP unusual, however, is not simply its scale but the nature and breadth of its grievance.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

With its exhaustive narrative breadth and action set pieces that only a budget of a cool $250 million could afford, the fact that “The Odyssey” exists at all is intended to feel like a miracle.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

Founded in 2008 by Trevyn and Julian McGowan, the gallery opened a New York outpost this spring with a pair of shows that highlighted the breadth of its homeland’s creativity while extolling its culture.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

You want an adviser who has the financial aspirations of Warren Buffett — not the literary breadth of Ernest Hemingway.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Glancing up, he saw with a start that his fingers were a hair’s breadth away from a large splayed hand that had been hammer-etched deep into the stone.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

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 Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

The regulation bunting as used in the navy is made in 9 in. widths, and the flag classes in size according to the number of breadths of bunting of which it is composed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

At greater distances they became much more sensible, but kept very nearly the same proportion of their breadths and intervals which they had at their first appearing.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir




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