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broaden

[brawd-n] / ˈbrɔd n /


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The company has also begun to broaden its business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The ezCater acquisition comes as Uber moves to broaden its global food delivery footprint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Hiring has also begun to broaden out beyond healthcare, which accounted for 95% of all new jobs in 2025.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

As a result, Milburn says children should be introduced to the world of work much earlier in their school journey, with dedicated space in the curriculum to "broaden horizons".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

They were more like present-day privileged Western students trawling the developing world and writing blogs about how the world’s poorest people enabled them to broaden their horizons.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

But if the weakness broadens or geopolitical risks intensify, policymakers could be spurred into action.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 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

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

The Treasury also broadened its push on Iran’s aviation sector.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

"We have broadened the potential application of these materials," Singh said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

He had practiced this, pulling the water with the broadened end, and he knew how it felt, so the resistance didn't surprise him.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

“The opportunity is also broadening beyond technology and communication services into financials, materials, power and electrification.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Nonetheless, the push to open diplomatic channels is broadening.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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

Now researchers are broadening the focus beyond simply reducing the number of alarms, with a larger goal of improving patient safety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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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