breadth
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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
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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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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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