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breadth

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




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A coalition of business groups, including the California Chamber of Commerce, opposed the breadth of buildings that could receive a maximum fine and argued the bill could create very large costs for property owners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

"The same is true of BBC Radio Wales, with, as we understand it, an equally significant reduction in the number of feature programmes, which will compromise the breadth of the programme offer."

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Wilson said the correction that began in June is now in the final innings, with both the S&P 500 retreating as breadth improves.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

More impressive still is that along the way they have thoroughly reconsidered the piano, finding the kaleidoscopic breadth that has lurked within it, incompletely exploited for more than two centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Despite his fragile physical and mental health, William still had an unequaled breadth of cryptographic experience, as well as close and long-standing friendships with key people in European intelligence circles.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

Tympanic bullae larger and markedly more inflated; nasals longer; zygomatic and mastoidal breadths greater; rostrum longer and more depressed; upper incisors longer and wider; molariform teeth smaller.

From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant

So huge is the mosque that the eyes are deceived within it, and can no longer measure heights or breadths with accuracy.

From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Robert (Robert Smythe) Hichens

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 or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott


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