broad
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Whether that energy can endure, Palshikar argues, will depend on many factors, including state repression, media blackouts, leadership challenges and the difficulty of building a broad social coalition.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Trade lawyers say the new tariffs are likely to withstand legal scrutiny, as Section 301 gives broad authority to the president to enact tariffs after an investigation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
And there’s likely a good reason for that: The term is typically only deployed by those comfortable being relegated as fringe, and Lamb seeks broad popularity.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
“Some companies post a deliberately broad spread to attract the widest pull of candidates, and then they see who has actually applied and benchmark the real range to that.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
The ostrich tipped its head from side to side, and gave a little shimmy with its broad, feathered tail.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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“Us old broads are trying to learn the new technology because, I mean, we’re kind of trapped,” said Linda Harner, whom I met at the Culver City Senior Center, where she takes a Spanish class.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2022
There were broads smiles and a joyful unity.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2022
This is a workout for ladies, by which she means older broads who might appreciate the occasional low-impact leg lifts.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2019
“I think they just bonded over overcoming their experiences, and being great broads, and being tremendous mothers,” she explained.
From Fox News ● Nov. 30, 2018
Every year, about this time, it was our practice to go in a house-boat over the broads of Samalda.
From The Home and the World by Tagore, Rabindranath
Compared with earlier student mobilisations, he argues, the current movement appears "broader and larger in scale".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The results arrived as the film industry looks for signs of a rebound, amid concerns about the broader shift to streaming and an ongoing retrenchment in Hollywood following strikes and the pandemic.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
On Saturday the FDA said lettuce from a batch that Taylor Farms hadn’t recalled tested positive for the bug, suggesting the problems were broader.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
It’s not enough for a film to explain its meaning; it must also say something about that message and its broader significance to stare down the “classic” label.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Natalie said absently, switching to a broader view of the neighborhood.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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David Hockney, who has died aged 88, was Britain's favourite artist - and a man of trenchant views, expressed in the broadest of Yorkshire vowels.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Well, okay: In the absolute broadest possible sense, the photos are about her kids growing up.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
Streamers are now faced with having to assemble the broadest range of content on their platforms to keep subscribers onboard for longer.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
The S&P 500 finished nearly 74 points higher on Wednesday, taking the broadest measure of U.S. blue-chip shares to the highest level on record and extending its April advance to a staggering 9.3%.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026
Those disparate rates constitute history’s broadest pattern and my book’s subject.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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