breadth
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This explains why breadth in the S&P’s slow grind higher of late has been so narrow.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
The breadth of Patekar's career showcases the wide range of his work.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The breadth and depth of AstraZeneca’s drug pipeline means those fears seem misplaced and the U.K. company is unlikely to share Roche’s fate, the analysts add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
After touching its narrowest level on record recently, there have been signs that breadth is making a comeback, as more stocks and sectors have turned higher over the past few sessions.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Celaena threw her dagger, and the blade clanged as it landed a hair’s breadth from the one she’d already embedded in the bull’s-eye.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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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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Skull: Long and slender; rostrum long and narrow; zygomatic and mastoidal breadths slight; palatal pits deep; upper incisors narrow; basioccipital wide.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant
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
Still, in secret, I I clung to the hope of one day traversing the lengths and breadths and depths and heights of the world of science.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
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