How to Use wide-ranging in a Sentence
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This seems more like the right charge for something this wide-ranging.
— Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2023 -
The show also seemed to cast with Graziadei’s wide-ranging tastes in mind.
— Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024 -
The impact from the hack has been wide-ranging across multiple states.
— Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024 -
The crowdsourced bits of data were wide-ranging and often quirky.
— Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024 -
The wide-ranging menu is described as Indo-Mexi fusion.
— Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 5 Apr. 2024 -
The transgressions among Colts players have been wide-ranging.
— Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2024 -
And animals as wild and wide-ranging as monkeys, crocodiles, and gazelles played a part in the pet culture of ancient Egypt.
— Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024 -
The charges against him, including bribery, fraud and breach of trust, served as the backdrop for a wide-ranging attack on the country’s judiciary.
— Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023 -
The revelations pulled back the curtain on systemic abuse in women’s soccer and led to wide-ranging fallout across the N.W.S.L.
— Jeré Longman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023 -
Through an extensive and difficult process, the wide-ranging field was narrowed down to a handful of candidates in the past few weeks.
— Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 29 Feb. 2024 -
The railroad has wide-ranging economic impacts on the region.
— Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024 -
Reed said the Hyundai expansion would have wide-ranging benefits.
— Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 16 Aug. 2023 -
The other gold medals demonstrated the wide-ranging expertise of the county’s brewers.
— Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2023 -
The wide-ranging remarks — delivered in both French and English — referred to the ongoing war with staunch support for Ukraine.
— Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023 -
The eight pieces of legislation would have wide-ranging effects on transgender minors and adults - from school sports to health care to workplace rights.
— Kimberly Kindy, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2023 -
The tag will record the sawfish’s movements for the next decade and will be used a part of wide-ranging partnership to monitor sawfish populations.
— Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 11 July 2023 -
Her expectations, hopes and dreams, like those of her older siblings, are high and wide-ranging because they are allowed to be high and wide-ranging.
— Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023 -
At a wide-ranging news conference this month, Mr. Macron argued that an imperfect deal was better than none.
— Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024 -
Its wide-ranging impact turns out to be not a quirk, but a byproduct of the East Coast’s unique geology of ancient fault lines and rock composition.
— Matt Simon, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2024 -
Pick a glass from the short list, or a bottle from the wall inside (the inventory is wide-ranging, both Italian and international).
— Ray Isle, Travel + Leisure, 25 Dec. 2023 -
Israel’s war cabinet had ordered the military to draw up plans for a wide-ranging set of strikes against targets in Iran in the event of a large-scale Iranian attack.
— Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024 -
Tiny variations in the variables can have wide-ranging consequences.
— Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023 -
And a conflict in space that affected those satellites would have wide-ranging implications, not just for the world’s militaries but for civilians around the globe.
— Shane Harris, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024 -
Members of staff from all over this large, wide-ranging vocational college have trooped down to meet the girl who wanted to learn about cutting up animals.
— Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024 -
Whatever the circumstances, the fact that an IT specialist three years out of high school had access to such wide-ranging, top-secret documents in the first place is, in a word, stunning.
— James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023 -
Transcript excerpts included in the filing are wide-ranging and contentious.
— Marc Hogan, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2023 -
As Roberts noted pregame, Yamamoto’s ability to dot the fastball — and, in turn, set up his wicked secondary weapons — has been the most impressive aspect of the pitcher’s wide-ranging skill set.
— Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024 -
Every biopic is a selective version of a life, and Bernstein’s wide-ranging and eventful life is more in need of selectivity than most.
— Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023 -
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in early 2020, state and local government agencies imposed wide-ranging business shutdowns to combat the spread of the deadly virus.
— George Avalos, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024 -
Drugmakers and a wide-ranging and growing bipartisan coalition of lawmakers are gearing up to push for that to change next year.
— Amanda Seitz, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
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