breadth
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The university agreed to pay $50 million over 10 years to Rhode Island workforce-development organizations, but this was far less than other schools’ penalties and was justified, among other things, by the agreement’s breadth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
To LeMaire, the breadth of the list reflects both Brooks’ long view of movie history and the eclecticism of his own work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
His second reason to remain upbeat is that most stocks have been hanging in there even as major indexes drop, due to “resilient” market breadth — the number of stocks rising versus those falling.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
At a scholarship audition, I watch as Bobby Ryan is asked to talk about the breadth of his community service.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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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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It is of unequal breadths, being from a quarter of a mile to a mile wide across from the harbour to the lake, and runs in length to the east five or six miles.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
If there hadn't been close on to two full breadths in each of his legs, I never could have got it out.
From In a Mysterious Way by Anne Warner
A full moon rose over the forest presently, and they pushed on across stretches of glistening silver and breadths of inky gloom.
From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss
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