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broaden

[brawd-n] / ˈbrɔd n /


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It also would broaden public insight into how lease agreements with the port affect the local workforce by adding employment reporting requirements for any leaseholder extending a lease or any lease applicant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

PRT also would broaden public insight into how lease agreements with the port affect the local workforce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

“Technology for high-voltage solutions will broaden our grid-equipment portfolio and expand our presence across product lines where we have a modest presence today,” Strazik says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Now, he sees the growing popularity of genres such as amapiano - a popular South African house music subgenre - as an opportunity to broaden the scene.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

He'd had a few partitions knocked down to make the place broaden out, he said, and then had them pine-panel the walls and fit up a special pine-paneled bar in the shape of a horseshoe.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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 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

“Customer demand is accelerating as enterprise adoption broadens and we continue to deepen our technology platform.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

‘And this ledge broadens out to the right. I could stand there without a hold. I’ll——’ his words were cut short.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

But following a security clampdown and serious injuries to some protesters, the movement broadened its demands to include greater protection of civil liberties and the right to protest.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 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

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

Two developments in Europe had broadened industrial chemists’ sense of what was possible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“We made friends—kids from different cultures. It broadened our minds, and we weren’t the only ones going through hard times. That’s why the team is so close. It became our family.”

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John

“This supports our view heading into October that back-end yields were likely approaching a peak, and that the equal weight S&P was the more attractive expression of the broadening trade.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Chairman Kevin Warsh said higher rates are reaching the investment surge and growth is broadening beyond it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

Best of all, the Levy family played chamber music every afternoon, thus broadening Shirley’s cultural horizons.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord


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