broad
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Choosing a laureate who enjoys broad consensus, such as an individual or organisation working to protect children or humanitarian efforts, would be less likely to stoke Trump's ire, experts say.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
There is no decisive signal yet that this year’s energy crisis has driven a broad shift away from oil and gas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The broad category also includes organisms such as kelp, slime molds, and red algae, some of which grow into large, complex structures.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
One of the most high-profile such incidents was in October last year, when France's crown jewels were stolen in broad daylight from the Louvre in Paris.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Often we drove down the village street in broad daylight so everyone could see us.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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Under the proposals, restoration projects would be put together for the River Wensum, the Bure broads and marshes, and the River Yare catchment area.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
“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
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 Rabindranath Tagore
In the AI era, he pared down his senior leadership team, while giving each person broader responsibilities, he explained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Even so, the broader strategy may have wide potential.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
That’s why we’re cautiously hopeful that after the midterms, Congress will seize the opportunity to make prior authorization and broader insurance marketplace reforms a priority.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
As the gap between the stock market’s winners and losers has widened over the past few months, more individual names have been trading at odds with the broader index.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
She who had worn the coat then was tall, slim, broader than I about the shoulders, for I had found it big and over-long, and the sleeves had come below my wrists.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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In court earlier on Wednesday, Pike's lawyers secured a legal win by convincing a judge to order the state to preserve the broadest amount of evidence possible from the US death row inmate's botched execution.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
“From an investment perspective, this may reinforce the company’s competitive positioning as the broadest retail ecosystem in the United States.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
So this add-on is probably best for frequent-fliers who want the broadest coverage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
That may not necessarily be unique in the broadest span of TV history, but it’s rare enough for the layperson to recognize the difference between a James Burrows show and those of other directors.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
That makes it the leading cause of history’s broadest pattern.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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