broaden
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If those currently underappreciated sectors come through, earnings leadership could broaden out, she says.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
The company has also begun to broaden its business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
It also would broaden public insight into how lease agreements with the port affect the local workforce by requiring any leaseholder extending a lease or lease applicant to disclose overview on its employment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“So you get this sort of idea of a filtering through the supply chain, a filtering into other areas of the economy that would broaden the base of expansion.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
I saw the drive broaden to the sweep I had expected, and with the blood-red wall still flanking us on either side; we turned the last corner, and so came to Manderley.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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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
But if the weakness broadens or geopolitical risks intensify, policymakers could be spurred into action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
“When it broadens out, it makes it much more difficult to avoid for consumers. That’s really the concern going forward,” Yaros said, adding that it’s especially challenging for lower-income households.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 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
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She even sought out McDonald, another yacht rock OG, for a collab that didn’t end up making the LP, which expanded beyond her original premise as her listening broadened along with her cooking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Perhaps the best sign of improvement in the job market would be if hiring broadened out to more businesses beyond healthcare.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
"We have broadened the potential application of these materials," Singh said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
It then broadened its restrictions on additional fertilizer varieties in March and halted most sulfuric-acid exports beginning in May.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Two weeks before the scheduled July 1 start of the talks, the Russians suddenly had insisted that the agenda be broadened to encompass negotiation of the test ban itself.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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However, what encourages Kirsch most of all is that the broadening of market performance that he called for is now unfolding and more forcefully than he anticipated.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Many firms have started passing on those costs to consumers, broadening inflationary pressures for which there is no easy fix.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Specialty eggs and prepared foods accounted for more than half of Cal-Maine’s net sales during the recent quarter, which Miller said underscores progress the company has made in broadening its business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
Compared to the normal brain, Algernons had decreased in weight and there was a general smoothing out of the cerebral convolutions as well as a deepening and broadening of brain fissures.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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