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breadth

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




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"The Commonwealth has scale and breadth, but is also small enough for leaders to know each other and co-operate together."

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

More impressive still is that along the way they have thoroughly reconsidered the piano, finding the kaleidoscopic breadth that has lurked within it, incompletely exploited for more than two centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

There has been an outpouring of messages from politicians and party leaders across the breadth of the political spectrum.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The bulk of the rampart holds her in its breadth.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

I've searched all lengths and breadths but this.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville

Still, in secret, I I clung to the hope of one day traversing the lengths and breadths and depths and heights of the world of science.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

Two breadths of blue cloth divided by one of yellow, would produce a blazonable coat, ‘Azure, a pale or.’

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower


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