width
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Marcus Rashford: Came central to receive the ball a lot as Spence provided the width on the England left.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
Both are around 20 miles wide, with most ships using just a small portion of that width.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
In some cases, their tightest sections measure only a few angstroms across, roughly the width of individual atoms.
From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026
No changes will be made to the width and level at which the band is centered.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
The Norse visits were instead launched from the Greenland colony, separated from North America only by the 200-mile width of Davis Strait.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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