breadth
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Widdecombe's death and the desire from Farage to discuss the safety of all Reform politicians highlight the breadth of the challenge the authorities face in assessing the threat to those in public life.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
You want an adviser who has the financial aspirations of Warren Buffett — not the literary breadth of Ernest Hemingway.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Horror is seasonless, especially now,” he says, pointing to the breadth of horror films, streaming series, and dark-fantasy books that can be accessed at any time of the year.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
Could one movie capture the breadth of emotions around this year’s 250th anniversary celebrations as well as Robert Altman did the Bicentennial?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The fish may be monsters, and you may be afloat on a doomed vessel—a pirate ship, perhaps—unaware of the breadth and the depth of the peril it sails upon.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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
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
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 Spears, John R.
Paddle wheels for engines having a single crank sometimes have their floats of varying breadths, so as to keep the speed of revolution as uniform as possible.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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