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The treasury officials estimated the errors might widen the 2023 budget deficit to 5.2% from the initial forecast of 4.9%, potentially opening a 9.2 billion-euro hole in public accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

You can still buy homes under $1 million in Los Angeles, but you’ll have to be smarter about your search, widen your location preference and prepare to compromise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

They are also not alone in raising concerns that consolidation could actually widen health inequalities if people are forced to travel further for treatment.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Trade ministers from several G20 economies are also seeking to widen trade talks beyond their US host this week.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

She left the cafe, and as she walked along the Common she felt the distance widen between her and another self, no less real, who was walking back toward the hospital.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

As the gap between the price of crude and the price of fuels widens, refiners make more on every gallon of fuel they create.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Saudi Arabia has closed a critical oil pipeline after it was attacked by drones launched from Iraq, as conflict in the Middle East widens.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

If competing platforms adopt equivalent commitments, the overnight block widens to 10:00 pm to 7:00 am and the daily allowance drops to 60 minutes per app, capped at two hours across all of them.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

But when that risk spikes, the spread quickly widens — as it did in 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and again in 2022-23.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

He widens his eyes and tilts his head at her, which must be parent code for: We talked about this.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

As the gap between the stock market’s winners and losers has widened over the past few months, more individual names have been trading at odds with the broader index.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

A police investigation into Seo's account was then widened to other residents.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

High Yield Option-Adjusted Spread widened 48 basis points, or 0.48 percentage points, from Aug. 28 to Sept. 30.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Access to the internet has widened their perspective, and many told Poole González that they dream of joining the exodus of more than 1 million Cubans who have left the island in recent years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

I would have widened my eyes and said something in the soft voice that makes them forget who they are – and, more importantly, who I am.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Shell and other oil majors are seeing "an unprecedented widening of the refining spread", said Kathleen Brooks, research director at trading group XTB.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

“It paints the picture of this later equity cycle environment, where correlations are lower, and we have these credit spreads widening out as well,” Wald told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Other options include widening the Brynglas Tunnels - one of the most significant causes of congestion on the M4 in Wales.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Meanwhile, the euro was under pressure from the widening gap in yields between Treasurys and European government bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Then she sees me and falters, eyes widening.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir