broadly based

idiom

: involving or attracting many different types of people
a broadly based political movement

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On Tuesday’s market decline, there were signs that the selling was not broadly based. Tom Aspray, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025 While broadly based in reality, the entire movie is a put-on, a wackazoid tall tale, a comedy that uses the breakfast wars as the jumping-off point for a high-camp exercise in nostalgic lunacy. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 May 2024

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“Broadly based.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/broadly%20based. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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