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When the prediction was first made, however, measuring such an effect across bends only a few atoms wide was extremely challenging.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
“Perfect problem to have,” it wrote, ending the sentence with a wide grinning emoji.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Start the sauce: In a large, wide skillet or Dutch oven, heat the butter, olive oil or combination of the two over low heat.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Top-quartile buyout managers have outperformed the public-market equivalent in every single period, by a wide margin.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
By 4:30 a.m. we had to be standing outside in the black predawn chill, standing at parade attention in blocks of one hundred women, ten wide, ten deep.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Co-author Associate Professor Maarten Immink says the findings point to a wider change in the way the body manages movement as people grow older.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
It’s simply spread across a much wider landscape than alcohol alone.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The new-found reach of these profiles, facilitated by Instagram's algorithms, opens them up to a wider pool of paying clients.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The controversy around Arday appears to have divided the Cambridge campus and wider academia.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
He spoke first, his eyes going wider still as he seemed to come to the same conclusion.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Give your eyes around 20 to 30 minutes to adjust to the darkness and look towards the widest unobstructed area of sky possible.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Reported EPS was 31.4% above expectations, which was the widest margin for a bottom-line beat since the 47.8% beat in the first quarter of 2021.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Of the three known planets in the system, Beta Pictoris d has the widest orbit, although it still lies inside the inner boundary of the debris disk.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Big Food stocks are now trading at their widest discount to the market in at least two decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The proposal that gained widest support was called the steady state theory.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
