How to Use broad-based in a Sentence

broad-based

adjective
  • Gas and shelter costs contributed more than half of that monthly increase, but price increases were broad-based, according to the BLS.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The state's sales tax revenue gains in June were broad-based compared to a year ago, said Shelnutt.
    Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 6 July 2023
  • The selloff was broad-based, spanning a range of property and tech stocks.
    Matthew Thomas, WSJ, 20 June 2023
  • The increase in rejections was broad-based across age groups and highest among those with credit scores below 680.
    Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Job growth was broad-based, even if less vigorous than the eye-popping numbers of 2022, when the nation was rapidly digging out of a deep pandemic deficit.
    Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • This phenomenon leaves most investors confused as to why this recent bull market run hasn’t been more broad-based.
    Ivan Illan, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The May job gains were broad-based, with some of the largest increases seen in professional and business services, government, health care and leisure and hospitality.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 2 June 2023
  • Countries that best facilitate responsible and broad-based AI adoption will see the greatest economic and job growth in the coming years.
    Victoria Espinel, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The advance was broad-based, reflecting gains in professional and business services, government and health care.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 June 2023
  • Yet just as Israeli opposition to the judicial overhaul is broad-based, criticisms in the U.S. are not limited to the political left.
    Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2023
  • Again, the emerging legal regime entrenches a divided world order in which broad-based, collective solutions are likely to fail.
    Aziz Huq, Foreign Affairs, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The job growth was fairly broad-based, with industries such as leisure and hospitality, services, and financial activities seeing some of the larger gains.
    Alicia Wallace, Krystal Hur, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • DiCamillo noted that the initial support for the ballot measure was broad-based, though Republicans and conservatives were more divided.
    Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023

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