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broaden

[brawd-n] / ˈbrɔd n /


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TSMC’s move to buy stakes in the industry’s most influential model developers shows its desire to broaden its AI exposure beyond manufacturing advanced chips to power AI computing infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

However, Snider thinks SpaceX could be added to the index toward the end of next year, which would broaden passive investors’ exposure to the company.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

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

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

“I’m just asking that you try. That school was an opportunity for you to see that there’s a big, wide world outside this neighborhood. A chance to broaden your horizons.”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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

Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh signaled that higher interest rates are reaching the artificial-intelligence investment surge as growth broadens beyond it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

Her smile broadens, and for a moment, I feel that I recognize her.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

But following the security clampdown, the movement broadened its demands to include greater protection for civil liberties and the right to protest.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 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

There are few signs inflation broadening has broadened so far.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

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

Stocks with relatively high dividend yields have been performing very well as a group, in line with the general broadening of performance for the U.S. stock market.

From MarketWatch ● 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

Mail-in voting has become more popular over the last decade, with many states broadening access to it during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

These lower rates are contributing to the broadening of the overall market as several other commentators have picked up in the last few days.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

And she’s right; the oldness is now just appearing about her lip, her temples, in the tide of her voice, which is steadily deepening, broadening.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee


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