broaden
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“The listing is intended to improve Glencore’s profile with Australian investors, broaden its shareholder base, improve trading liquidity and enhance corporate financial flexibility,” the analyst says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
His goal is to broaden the museum’s reach, not just show by show, but by connecting it to a larger community of civic leaders and arts organizations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
So they will welcome "the opportunity to broaden their customer base and potentially move into defence", he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
“We believe this pressure is likely to broaden as agentic AI increasingly replaces human search, comparison and routine decision-making,” he wrote following Amazon’s decision.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Mom also kept insisting that we make scenic detours to broaden our horizons.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
“The combination broadens the resource base, reduces reliance on the higher-decline Norwegian portfolio and creates a 2nd infrastructure-led development engine in Denmark.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The move broadens the existing California-Quebec carbon market, linked in 2014.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
“Customer demand is accelerating as enterprise adoption broadens and we continue to deepen our technology platform.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
The revelation broadens a cyber incident that OpenAI described as unprecedented and which began when two of its models hacked Hugging Face, a site developers use to store and share AI models and code.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Her smile broadens, and for a moment, I feel that I recognize her.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
The Treasury also broadened its push on Iran’s aviation sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
California has broadened the list of racial and ethnic categories people can select in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
"We have broadened the potential application of these materials," Singh said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Although G20 talks broadened to cover issues like climate change and global health over time, analysts expect Washington to advocate a "back-to-basics" approach this year.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The gully turned eastward, and as they went on it broadened and got gradually shallower.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
She says the explosion of content online has "definitely helped" with broadening attitudes to women taking up DIY or a trade.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Against that backdrop, the central bank remains cautious on inflation pressures broadening beyond just energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Across the infrastructure field, “constraints are broadening rather than easing,” Daryanani said, and he expects that dynamic to get worse in 2027.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The movie “9 to 5” from 1980 settled her broadening stardom; acting alongside Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in a comedy about three office workers who get even with an abusive boss, Parton charmed viewers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
And she’s right; the oldness is now just appearing about her lip, her temples, in the tide of her voice, which is steadily deepening, broadening.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
