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Meanings of wide (wides) in English
Broad in scope or content.
Related terms
Portuguese
amplamente Synonyms
Examples for "broad"
Examples for "broad"
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However the ministers gave their broad political backing in some key areas.
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It's not clear how broad the definition of 'home delivery' will be.
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Mr Venizelos yesterday reiterated his call for a broad government of?shared responsibility?
4
China has continued to provide broad diplomatic support for Myanmar's military government.
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Unlike the United States, Europe does not have broad sanctions against Iran.
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Right across France and Scandinavia, for example, there are extensive community forests.
2
The House of Representatives passed an extensive financial reform bill last year.
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And it is an extensive role throughout this financial crisis, Barofsky said.
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But health experts and Scott Morrison said extensive stockpiling was not necessary.
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However, Mr Ledua said damage did not appear to be too extensive.
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Of course we do not want a blanket change in the law.
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A catnip comforter is another idea: numerous cats are used as blanket.
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However, there will be no blanket debt or negative equity forgiveness programme.
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I wonder if the thing someone needs desperately is a good blanket.
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A blanket response like this adds little value to a complex problem.
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However, the new location, in a spacious park, gave him more freedom.
2
Mercedes' spacious new E-Class estate will win market share, believes Michael McAleer.
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I had a spacious house and lots of hope for my family.
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Many of the large houses, including Gorse Hill, stand on spacious grounds.
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Hami's new room is spacious and light with an extra-wide door way.
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Results: Forty-five relevant studies encompassing 54 patients with sinonasal paraganglioma were identified.
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Preventative measures need to be devised and the treatment should be all-encompassing.
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Its properties are encompassing approximately five million square feet in the aggregate.
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The Stenton's apartment is the largest in the house, encompassing seven rooms.
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Asia in the 70s seemed to corner the market in all-encompassing films.
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Picasso drew like Raphael and Ingres, with a panoptic, all-conquering line.
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These panoptic technologies are combined with constant human surveillance.
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But his perspective was panoptic.
4
The Gear 360 has two fish-eye lenses that gobble up the scene in 4K video or 30-megapixel panoptic stills.
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Panoptic lens … white marble walls frame tinted windows that survey the city.
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At these the company conceded across-the-board pay increases of 12 per cent.
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But an across-the-board rise of 7 per cent is anticipated for this year.
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Financial markets likely would react badly to the jolt of across-the-board tax hikes.
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There was across-the-board gains in China and Hong Kong, led by financial stocks.
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No 10 is insistent an across-the-board pay cap is no longer in place.
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Other writers attacked Montaigne's digressiveness, self-obsession and all-embracing doubt for similar reasons.
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Two months later came Alexander Butterfield's revelation of Nixon's all-embracing tape-recording system.
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That was the sole, the all-embracing light in which Jesus ever walked.
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Only so will the reality correspond to the initial and all-embracing grant.
5
The sight of the bow cast Will into a dismal, all-embracing despair.
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Preventative measures need to be devised and the treatment should be all-encompassing.
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Asia in the 70s seemed to corner the market in all-encompassing films.
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Long kisses, and his long fingers, and his deep and all-encompassing laughter.
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She was sopping up a soapy pool with an all-encompassing gray scrub-rag.
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Longer-term, analysts said, Moynihan must prove that an all-encompassing financial conglomerate can work.
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Now, we have all-inclusive government and hope for lasting peace, Ahmed said.
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A Hume appointment would tell the world about a new, all-inclusive Ireland.
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He wanted Jakarta to open an all-inclusive dialogue to address the abuses.
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You can probably expect all-inclusive meals, drinks, activities and perhaps gourmet dining.
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One important feature for their budget was that the trip was all-inclusive.
Usage of wides in English
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Meath ended up shooting 16 wides and dropped several more attempts short.
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However their side made five extras -wides, byes or no balls.
3
Moate hit 10 wides while wind assisted in the opening half hour.
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His third ball disappears for five wides, miles down the leg side.
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Their 10 second-half wides actually exceeded Cork's total for the entire game.
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They shot 14 wides and against stronger opposition that would have been fatal.
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The strong swirling wind during the game resulted in Galway shooting 19 wides.
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Three wides from prized bowler Jofra Archer met with a lot of boos.
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It could have been closer had Westmeath converted some of the seven wides.
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We would see a narrowing of mortgage spreads, which are at historic wides.
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At the other end, they need to stop banging cheap wides.
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The next ball swings down the leg side for five wides.
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In a scrappy first half the sides shared 15 wides with Dublin hitting eight.
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Carlow pushed from the throw-in but had amassed four wides by the 10th minute.
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Doug Bob's cedar house was bigger than three double wides.
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However, yesterday's display was marked by an alarming number of wides: 13 in the first-half.
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