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Among the people I spoke with, there wasn’t a single person who didn’t voice a wide variety of complaints about the country.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Here, in yellow, we see four players wide with only one positioned centrally, highlighted in white.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
That is an astonishing reversal from Berkshire’s glory days during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s when it crushed the overall market by a wide margin.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
They can, of course, give a wide berth to controversial topics in their songs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
You can laugh or yawn, roll your eyes upward in boredom, or open your eyes wide in delight.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
If it goes sharply beyond the forecast of several Fed officials of one more quarter-point rate increase this year, or the market’s expectation of hikes next year, that could push spreads out wider again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The new technologies may be able to help the wider agriculture industry, as well as citrus growers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Kang views investment in infrastructure as part of a wider remit to ensure female athletes are no longer treated differently from their male counterparts.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Researchers create global maps of the Moon and compare them with earlier versions, looking for changes wider than 150 feet.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Figure 2.9: Voices are as individual as faces; some altos will have a narrower or wider range, or the sweetest and most powerful part of their range in a different place than other altos.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
The company also says the gap between the value of a flat and a house is the widest it has been for 30 years.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
It's a gap of 5.8 percentage points this year, down from 6.2 last year and 9.5 in 2017, when it was at its widest this century.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Its 22% discount was one of the widest of any U.S. closed-end fund that invested in public securities, according to the fund’s semiannual report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
This marks the planet's widest visible separation from the Sun during its current appearance in the evening sky.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
He combined methods and details from the cathedrals he had seen in his travels with his instruction from the chapter to design the longest, widest, highest, and most beautiful cathedral possible.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
