width
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The longtime Wedge bodysurfer figures the beach has lost around two-thirds of its width this year, leaving just 50 yards or so between the water and the first row of homes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
And that lack of width, on the eye at least, suggests overtaking will be virtually impossible.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The hulking, three-story gray concrete structure is the width of a city block, with entrances on Tobias Avenue and Van Nuys Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The full-back and winger would regularly combine on the outside, but the relationship was never as simple as one holding the width and the other supporting underneath statically.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Amber moves two paces away, and that tiny space feels like the width of an ocean.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
It is currently in the process of updating its track widths to match the European standard.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Drilling delivered high gold grades, strong widths, and mineralized extensions, says analyst Mike Millikan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
The idea was that properties would be continuously redeveloped and that the streets would eventually reach new, consistent widths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
As a result, a wooden object can be dated by comparing the annual growth ring widths with already existing standard or regional chronologies.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
To get down to the scale of atoms, you would need to take each one of those micron slices and shave it into ten thousand finer widths.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing width
Geometry - Introductory
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Measurement and Data, List 2
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Geometry (Base List)
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