breadth
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However, if the hikes are limited to the select increases that the analysts found today, investors are likely to be underwhelmed by the breadth and magnitude, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
When the market gets those inflows into laggards, breadth naturally expands.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026
“Every year, we have this freak-out about breadth, but the correction that’s supposed to go along with it doesn’t happen.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026
The breadth of Patekar's career showcases the wide range of his work.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Before me was a space of such immense size, height, depth, and breadth, that I never would have thought it could exist on mortal earth.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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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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At greater distances they became much more sensible, but kept very nearly the same proportion of their breadths and intervals which they had at their first appearing.
From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Sir Isaac Newton
The breadths of satin are put together so that the stripes meet in points at the seams.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
Unploughed, unsown, by scythe unshorn, The poor forsaken farm-fields lie, Once rich and rife with golden corn And pale-green breadths of rye.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle
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