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View definitions for sweep

sweep

noun as in range, extent

noun as in movement

verb as in brush off, away

verb as in fly, glide

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Stapleton seemed poised to sweep the awards show but ultimately lost the top prize — entertainer of the year — to Morgan Wallen.

The government was aware these are sweeping requests.

Everything about this ambitious, sweeping epic feels precisely calibrated, revealing the story of a Hungarian architect immigrating to America after WWII, a man chasing the American dream and finding it elusive and poisonous.

Instead, he was joining other teachers sweeping up material from an early morning fire underneath the stadium bleachers that severely damaged the press box.

A key Los Angeles City Council committee signed off on a sweeping rezoning plan Tuesday that would focus new market rate and affordable housing on commercial corridors and in existing dense residential neighborhoods.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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