breadth
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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
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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
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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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