broad

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Tens of thousands of people have left Tyre, but around 20,000 remain, including 15,000 displaced from surrounding villages, despite Israeli evacuation warnings covering most of the city and a broad swathe of the south.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

Joel Negin, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney, said Australia's measures in 1996 largely worked because they were part of a broad suite of measures implemented "very quickly" after the massacre.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Martindale explained that this discovery could have broad implications.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

In a democratic republic the people choose those representatives through elections with broad suffrage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Clothing him had been a difficulty—he was so broad at the shoulder and biceps that he had split the seams in three consecutive coats each time he flexed his arms.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell