sweepingly

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And even if the modern melodrama rarely gets sweepingly positive reviews, they still make a boatload of cash.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

Unfortunately, Mahmoud’s author, Justice Samuel Alito, wrote the opinion so sweepingly that this interpretation is entirely plausible.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

"It is sweepingly broad language," said Rachel Rebouché, dean and law professor at Temple University Law school, and a leading scholar in reproductive health law.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2024

As Oppenheimer is confronted with the gravest consequences of theory becoming practice, a story of human intelligence and enterprise becomes one of monstrous, clockwork-like betrayals, some sweepingly systemic and some intimately personal.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023

More sweepingly, it suggested that the enormous but latent potential of the American economy required more than mere release to achieve its full potential.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis