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
I think the scope of television has changed wildly in 20 years and the length and breadth of the variety there is kind of remarkable at times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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
Newton notes the Russell 3000 McClellan Summation Index — a breadth indicator — is sitting near its June peak and while, drifting sideways, hasn’t nosedived, which is often the precursor to a bigger downturn.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
They don’t measure anything that we are accustomed to, like length, breadth, width, or time.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
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
No girl could help grasping at it eagerly, and while Blanche studied the part, she, the mother, would baste up some breadths of satin she had by her into a court dress.
From Life on the Stage by Clara Morris
The number of illusive renderings of prints taken from the same finger, is greatly increased by such trifles as the relative breadths of their respective lineations and the differences in their depths of tint.
From Finger Prints by Sir Francis Galton
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