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broaden

[brawd-n] / ˈbrɔd n /


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The findings broaden the potential benefits of vaccination by highlighting a form of protection that may not be immediately apparent.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

"AI leadership could broaden, rather than the boom ending," Chanana said, adding that AMD, Broadcom, Alphabet and Samsung could all gain.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

While he’s targeting that big 10K number for next year, he says investors need to broaden their exposure beyond tech.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

He wanted to broaden the market by appealing to women.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Because he spent all of his free time there, he couldn’t quite manage to broaden his life.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

It increases Service Stream’s scale, broadens its addressable market, and diversifies earnings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

At the same time, “Black Zombie” recognizes this subgenre’s cultural resilience, arguing that recognizing the zombie’s true roots broadens its narrative possibilities.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

The discovery broadens the known variety of magnetic minerals found in lunar samples.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

The move broadens the existing California-Quebec carbon market, linked in 2014.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

It was about nine in the morning when Mammachi and Baby Kochamma got news of a white child’s body found floating downriver where the Meenachal broadens as it approaches the backwaters.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

But following the security clampdown, the movement broadened its demands to include greater protection for civil liberties and the right to protest.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Lakota is predominantly known to be a bass music venue, but over the years it has broadened its programme to include Afrobeats and amapiano events.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Toyota didn’t foresee the rise in U.S. gas prices, Rose said, and that has broadened the RAV4’s appeal beyond hybrids’ coastal strongholds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

In other words, that means the rally suddenly broadened to most of the sector from only a handful of consumer stocks, said analysts at SentimenTrader.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

After they had been searching and moving on quietly for some time, they reached a place from which they could see that the field below them broadened out.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

It relied hugely on advertising that was brokered through third-party services such as Apple, and wanted to change that by broadening beyond social media to its own hardware and devices.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

My take: Some of this may be healthy broadening after a long stretch of overheated tech buying.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

Mail-in voting has become more popular over the last decade, with many states broadening access to it during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Inflationary pressures in Canada have yet to show any clear signs of broadening out despite persistently high energy prices, Desjardins’ Royce Mendes notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Four bartenders moved in an unrehearsed dance as they tried to provide drinks to the impatient Marines who screamed at them above the broadening dimensions of pandemonium loose in the Officers’ Club.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy


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