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breadth

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




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Analysts say the market’s narrow breadth poses a risk to investors, with returns reliant on a small group of stocks that can swing wildly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

For investors who own fewer shares of the market’s winners than the benchmark, weak breadth can of course be a problem.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

In fairness, Roberts did seem to recognize some problems with the breadth of the immunity that the oil companies were asking for, as did Justice Gorsuch.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

Monét’s sense of rejuvenation is easy to feel across “Frequency of Love,” a sprawling and vibrant new album out Friday on which this seasoned multitasker showcases the breadth of her talent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

With the suspicious attention of a diamond merchant he examined the banana meticulously, dissecting it with a special scalpel, weighing the pieces on a pharmacist's scale, and calculating its breadth with a gunsmith's calipers.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

They are markedly smaller in every measurement taken, except zygomatic and mastoidal breadths, and extension of premaxillae posterior to nasals.

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

"I'm just ready to try it on," and Kate, the maid, appeared in the doorway, her mouth full of pins, and her hands full of voluminous breadths of tulle.

From In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells

Paddle wheels for engines having a single crank sometimes have their floats of varying breadths, so as to keep the speed of revolution as uniform as possible.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose




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