wide-ranging
Example Sentences
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The Catholic leader's wide-ranging Africa tour will include stops in 11 cities across four countries.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
The talks were preliminary and wide-ranging, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
No, the opposition toward the candidate is viciously intense, shockingly manifold, and wide-ranging to the point of sounding almost existential.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz remains one of the world’s most strategically important chokepoints, and any sustained disruption could have wide-ranging economic and geopolitical consequences.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
“We talked about physics,” Oppenheimer recalled, recognizing that Ernest’s intellectual interests were narrower than his own and that he might not be especially receptive to wide-ranging symposia on Eastern philosophy and Western art.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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