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breadth

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




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In recent days, Krinsky has warned clients about what he sees as a growing triple threat: weak stock-market breadth, rising credit spreads and rising nominal Treasury yields.

From MarketWatch Sep. 23, 2026

This has hardly been the first sign of bad stock-market breadth to crop up over the past few weeks.

From MarketWatch Sep. 23, 2026

But frankly, this was hard to square with the breadth and intensity of her many extracurricular activities.

From The Wall Street Journal 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

In his “Sand Reckoner,” Archimedes first calculated how many grains of sand would fit across a poppy seed, and then how many poppy seeds would span a finger's breadth.

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

If there hadn't been close on to two full breadths in each of his legs, I never could have got it out.

From In a Mysterious Way by Anne Warner

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




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