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breadth

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




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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

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

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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