wide-reaching
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If this technology is brought into real-world use, it could have wide-reaching effects.
From Science Daily • May 3, 2026
Since her election in March last year, the 42-year-old Zimbabwean former swimmer has launched a wide-reaching consultation on the future of the Olympic movement, while remaining tight-lipped about her own opinion on political issues.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
A genre as wide-reaching and weird as this one doesn’t need golden statues to be legitimized.
From Salon • Oct. 23, 2025
The districts must also follow the federal Voting Rights Act and group together “communities of interest,” a wide-reaching term of art for people who share languages, cultures, backgrounds, interests, ways of life or other traits.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025
It exercises a censure over religious books and pamphlets, and enjoys a very wide-reaching power in civil matters, notably in all matrimonial cases.
From Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) by Pont-Jest, Ren? de