broad
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The analysis included a broad range of red meats, such as beef, lamb, pork, rabbit, goat, and game.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 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
Certainly, it helped that interest rates in the bond market saw a big pullback from recent highs, providing some broad relief to stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026
The Nasdaq composite fell 4.5% in its worst week since June, driven by a broad tech selloff and fears that higher borrowing costs could slow AI investments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Three towers, each topped with a dome in dusky pink, gave it a look of wit and knowing intelligence, and its vast arched windows with their broad sills gave it solidity and purpose.
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
It is common in all the larger shallow lakes of Central Europe, and abounds in the "broads" which extend from Potsdam to Hamburg, though it is unknown in the British Isles.
From More Science From an Easy Chair by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
The protests became broader and represented other concerns some French people have about issues in the country.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Those concerns were further fueled by broader economic trends, including inflation rising faster than anticipated in September, which could lead the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates with more urgency.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Taylor Farms emphasized the correction; federal investigators maintained that their broader epidemiological and traceback evidence still implicated the company’s shredded iceberg.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
The concerns about security are broader than AI, and include vulnerable undersea cables that provide global connectivity, some of which can’t be backstopped by satellites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The first figure—a large Black man with arms of mahogany, fists like rocks, and shoulders broader than mountains—went down on one knee in the soft, damp earth.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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In court earlier on Wednesday, Pike's lawyers secured a legal win by convincing a judge to order the state to preserve the broadest amount of evidence possible from the US death row inmate's botched execution.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The company has the broadest pipeline in its history with about 60 drugs under development in hopes that the more shots on goal, the better.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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 broadest category of high-tech employment, including software development and computer design, totaled 2.37 million jobs in May.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026
They speak with the broadest accent of the district.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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