breadth
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Not all his stories are original, given the breadth of material he covers, but he enriches them with fascinating details.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
In any case, simple breadth technical indicators have been flashing sell signals for stocks for some time.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 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
What I’m referring to is simple breadth — the number of advancing issues minus the number of declining issues.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Their boards barely a hand’s breadth above the housetops, the patterns of shingles passed underneath hypnotically.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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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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The breadths of satin are put together so that the stripes meet in points at the seams.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
But time went on and on, for seven lengths and seven breadths, and yet he did not come back.
From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by P. Chr. Asbj?rnsen
At concerts, many dresses are seen either with flounces or apron-shaped fronts; that is to say, the front breadth has a much richer pattern, and different from the other breadths of the skirt.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
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