broad
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"It has broad applications, and we hope the life science community will be well served by it, leading to many new discoveries."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
ROS are a type of free radical, a broad term for one class of unstable, high-energy molecules.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
His expressive handling of broad color areas may be abruptly stopped by a fussy attention to his personnel’s facial features, as if a Victorian code of good painterly behavior were suddenly reasserting itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Morningstar analyst Luke Yang told MarketWatch there wasn’t one single factor gripping the market on Friday, as investors seemed to be digesting a broad breakdown of faith in the AI trade this week.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
The dragon’s back was broad as a dozen grand pianos, and as polished; it was slippery, and hard to know where to put his feet.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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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
The great stronghold of the otter is the broads of Norfolk, where, in the sluggish, reedy water, he can get p. 56plenty of eels, snails, and so forth.
From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by James Conway Walter
McGuire pointed out the legislative exemption as part of broader reform of the law that exempted certain housing projects and other trails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Wilson predicts this trend has further to run as the broader correction in stock markets approaches its end point.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
However, the researchers eventually recognized that they were connected by a broader principle involving symmetries of electron spins.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
But the broader spending picture is getting worse.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
“But what if it’s a huge river,” I asked him once—“like the Congo, which is much broader than the reach of any vine?”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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“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
The Fed pays much less attention to aggregate demand and nominal gross domestic product, which is the broadest measure of current dollar spending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
In his speech, András Baka promised the broadest possible debate on the creation of a new constitution.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
“We have by far the biggest and broadest research bench of any of the labs out there,” Hassabis said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The combination of government and religion has thus functioned, together with germs, writing, and technology, as one of the four main sets of proximate agents leading to history’s broadest pattern.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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