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wide open

[wahyd-oh-puhn] / ˈwaɪdˈoʊ pən /














wide-open
ADJECTIVE
lacking strict enforcement of laws
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ADJECTIVE
opened to the full extent
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Example Sentences

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That protection is the main reason why social media companies can facilitate wide-open discussion online.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

He is renowned for his elusive skating and elite puck-handling ability, allowing him to excel on the wide-open ice of 3-on-3.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Kaori Sakamoto will be looking to avoid another Olympics upset as the Japanese figure skating star takes to the ice in the wide-open women's singles starting Tuesday.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

Somewhere deep in the limbic system, a synapse fires like a flare, tracing the old circuitry of migration and memory — that annual pull toward the wide-open deserts of the American Southwest.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

Cornfields bleak in all those gray, wide-open reaches.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt