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widespread

[wahyd-spred] / ˈwaɪdˈsprɛd /


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Chris Murray, the vice president of the Ulster University Students' Union at Coleraine said "there is definitely widespread concern especially on this campus".

From BBC • May 17, 2026

If so, they could function as a widespread system of natural earthquake brakes that prevents some ruptures from escalating into even larger events.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

Companies are grappling with “AI agent sprawl” as widespread AI agent adoption creates management, cybersecurity, and cost issues.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Social media buzzed with word that both Spotify and Apple Music had widespread outages last night upon release.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

So widespread was Olmec iconography—jaguar babies, carved stelae, distinctively shaped ceramics—that many archaeologists believed its very ubiquity was evidence that the Olmec “not only engendered Mesoamerica but also brought forth the first Mesoamerican empire.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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