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breadth

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




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The gap in earnings revision breadth between high- and low-quality has expanded to 10%, the second-widest since 2010.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

“This is a market with a weak trend, weak breadth and weak participation,” Johnson said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Short-term breadth readings only occasionally signal a pullback, and usually just a minor one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Even for armchair fans watching at home, the breadth and expense of television subscriptions can be a barrier to accessing sport.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Glancing up, he saw with a start that his fingers were a hair’s breadth away from a large splayed hand that had been hammer-etched deep into the stone.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

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

Two breadths of Turkish tapestry hung down over the doorway of the reception-room, thus obscuring its interior.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

Seaming.—A narrow openwork insertion, gimp or braiding, with parallel sides, used for joining two breadths of linen, instead of sewing them directly the one to the other.

From Lace, Its Origin and History by Samuel L. Goldenberg


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