breadth
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A coalition of business groups, including the California Chamber of Commerce, opposed the breadth of buildings that could receive a maximum fine and argued the bill could create very large costs for property owners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
The so-called breadth of job creation has become an increasingly important measure of the labor market’s health this year.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
"The same is true of BBC Radio Wales, with, as we understand it, an equally significant reduction in the number of feature programmes, which will compromise the breadth of the programme offer."
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Still, petite SunMi Park, beaming with physical confidence and musical sensibility, gave this ballet a stirring impact, smoothly supported by Calvin Royal III, whose long, wing-like arms brought special breadth to framing his partner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
They were fanned out to such a tremendous breadth that they made a canopy over the city, blocking out the sunlight.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
She threw off the carpet slippers, and reached under the breadths of the silver gray skirt for her new shoes.
From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Sarah Bell Hackley
Seaming.—A narrow openwork insertion, gimp or braiding, with parallel sides, used for joining two breadths of linen, instead of sewing them directly the one to the other.
From Lace, Its Origin and History by Samuel L. Goldenberg
No girl could help grasping at it eagerly, and while Blanche studied the part, she, the mother, would baste up some breadths of satin she had by her into a court dress.
From Life on the Stage by Clara Morris
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