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as in expanses
a wide space or area
a great breadth of land awaited those who were brave and hardy enough to settle it
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2
as in scopes
an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends
the breadth of his knowledge on the subject is awesome
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for breadths
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By traversing sonic ground across its 10 tracks that transports listeners from the open expanses of Montana to the Mississippi Hill Country, Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen effectively weave a tapestry that knits together a throughline between foundational Americana genres.—
Chris Barilla,
PEOPLE,
15 May 2026 -
Encounters with whales, dolphins and penguins awaited; landscapes of icy expanses, towering cliffs and rolling green hills beckoned.—
Hira Humayun,
CNN Money,
6 May 2026
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During their recent visit, the three docents set up scopes to zoom in on the nest.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
8 May 2026
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The Orion Nebula, a showpiece easily visible in small scopes or binoculars below Orion’s Belt, is a bright eyepiece-filling gem.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Now, the siblings regularly discuss entirely new storylines and creative expansions with the author directly.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
19 May 2026
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There is no money for more streetcar expansions, though the Streetcar Authority has studied a variety of possibilities.—
Eleanor Nash
May 18,
Kansas City Star,
18 May 2026
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In March, China settled on the term ciyuan as the official translation for tokens, a move suggesting Beijing is looking to shape the rules of the AI economy and expand its efforts to counter the US dollar’s dominance in global commerce to digital realms.—
Tasneem Nashrulla,
semafor.com,
19 May 2026
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That hyper-local, hyper-personal sense of trust and the village green is becoming an important bulwark against the erosion of values in other realms.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
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Iron Honor had a clear path on the outside and threatened with a late surge, but Lopez pushed Napoleon Solo and did not yield to Flavien Prat, who finished 1 1/4 lengths behind on Iron Honor (9-1) for second.—
Emily Ohman,
New York Times,
16 May 2026
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The colt won his first two starts last year by impressive margins, prevailing in the Champagne Stakes by 6½ lengths in October.—
Noah Trister,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2026
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Unlike Downtown and the Denver Tech Center, Cherry Creek isn’t worrying about what to do with nearly empty office buildings or how to fill large stretches of vacant storefronts.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
18 May 2026
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And in between, long stretches of normalcy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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But outfielders Jakob Marsee and Owen Caissie and catcher Agustin Ramirez have struggled to various extents.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
2 May 2026
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Meanwhile, cannabis has been legalized to varying extents in many states.—
Lucy Xiaolu Wang,
The Conversation,
13 Apr. 2026
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Most patients were able to walk faster by 16 weeks post-treatment, and eight no longer needed their assistive devices for short distances.—
Amber Dance,
ArsTechnica,
17 May 2026
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The car is outfitted with 29 cameras, six radars, five microphones, and five lidar sensors, which continuously pulse to measure distances, objects, and people as far as three football fields away.—
Anderson Cooper,
CBS News,
17 May 2026
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“Breadths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breadths. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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