breadth
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Reaching a semifinal is coming within a hair’s breadth of glory, because after a World Cup final, there’s nothing left,” Barton said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Even so, the “stocks only” breadth oscillator has closed above +200 for two consecutive days, and that means it has rolled over to a buy signal.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
While short-term participation has wavered, those rotations have kept NDR’s longer-term breadth indicators from turning bearish, the strategists said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
This is because “Shopify’s pace of innovation, breadth of features, reliability, scalability, and extensibility are superior to free tools,” according to the analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Their boards barely a hand’s breadth above the housetops, the patterns of shingles passed underneath hypnotically.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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
Skull: Braincase less inflated; nasals truncated posteriorly as opposed to rounded; zygomatic and mastoidal breadths less; rostrum shorter but narrower; upper incisors narrower and shorter.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant
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
At concerts, many dresses are seen either with flounces or apron-shaped fronts; that is to say, the front breadth has a much richer pattern, and different from the other breadths of the skirt.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
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