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breadth

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




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The breadth of Mr. Power’s reading is on full display in such surveys.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Rhys: I might have to, but I worry about the breadth of audience we’d have there.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Some in Labour were unhappy when Lennon didn't make the ballot for this contesting, lamenting a lack of breadth in the contest.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Newton notes the Russell 3000 McClellan Summation Index — a breadth indicator — is sitting near its June peak and while, drifting sideways, hasn’t nosedived, which is often the precursor to a bigger downturn.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

Beneath them, spanning the breadth of the stage, were eight demonstration boards, where the moves of the games were to be displayed.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

And there are being revealed breadths and depths of real religion that we had not understood.

From Religion and the War by Various

Unploughed, unsown, by scythe unshorn, The poor forsaken farm-fields lie, Once rich and rife with golden corn And pale-green breadths of rye.

From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle

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




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