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breadth

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




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The researchers say the register lays bare the breadth of which individuals contributed financially to the slave trade - from monarchs and politicians, to plumbers and clergymen.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

"If something feels risky, try and do it as you'll learn more from it and it'll build breadth around your CV that you didn't have previously."

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

The economists said the relatively narrow breadth of U.S. price pressures supports their view that global inflation remains largely supply-driven.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

This year has seen a bunch of “divergence days” in which the “index does one thing but then breadth does the opposite,” he noted.

From MarketWatch Aug. 29, 2026

It had the appearance of a mountain hanging in the sky a hand’s breadth above the horizon, and covered in cloud.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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

No girl could help grasping at it eagerly, and while Blanche studied the part, she, the mother, would baste up some breadths of satin she had by her into a court dress.

From Life on the Stage by Clara Morris

I've searched all lengths and breadths but this.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville




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