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Bleaching events since 2018 have caused widespread coral mortality, with the United Nations' World Ocean Assessment warning that 90 percent of reefs could disappear if global warming tops 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Ghana is a predominantly Christian country where preaching on public transport is widespread.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
“I was shocked at how widespread it was there.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The more prosaic risk is that current growth rates won’t be sustained, once adoption is widespread and the most productive applications deployed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
One of the most pernicious factors, Olmsted found, was the widespread fear that anyone who ventured to Chicago would be “fleeced unmercifully,” especially in the fair’s many restaurants, with their “extortionate” prices.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing widespread
"The Civil Rights Movement"
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100 SAT words Beginning with W,X,Y, and Z
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"Laws are not the only way to boost immunization”: an editorial from Nature
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