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breadth

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




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Short-term breadth readings only occasionally signal a pullback, and usually just a minor one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

This explains why breadth in the S&P’s slow grind higher of late has been so narrow.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Even for armchair fans watching at home, the breadth and expense of television subscriptions can be a barrier to accessing sport.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Analysts say the market’s narrow breadth poses a risk to investors, with returns reliant on a small group of stocks that can swing wildly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

But then a great crack exploded a hand’s breadth from my head.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

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

Two breadths of blue cloth divided by one of yellow, would produce a blazonable coat, ‘Azure, a pale or.’

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

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

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

From Religion and the War by Various




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