widen
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Epner supports a proposed change to New York's law to widen the scope of when someone is too intoxicated to consent.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Some of the earliest dustups date back to the 1990s, when voters rejected a ballot measure to widen the runway to accommodate jumbo jets, such as Boeing 737s.
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
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
The point was less to find a new job than to widen my understanding of what was possible and how others had gone about it.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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
Each added layer of complexity widens the range of assumptions and models a rating agency can employ.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
She widens her eyes at me, as if to say, What are you doing?
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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
Instead, “le spread,” traders’ shorthand for the difference in borrowing costs between France and Germany, widened dramatically, as did “lo spread,” or the extra yield on Italian government bonds over bunds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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
There was more space between their trees and the other trees that were floating, as if the river had widened, making room for its passengers.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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
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
“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
That 48-basis-point move isn’t enormous by historical standards, but the speed of the widening is what caught my attention.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
He looked back to Constance and saw the realization hit her, her eyes widening with alarm.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
