well-spread

• “A spokesman for Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Union confirmed that no action will be taken for another four weeks, and said it was due to "some fairly well-spread reliability issues with the airline at the moment.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Qantas Union Calls Off Next Week's Strikes

• “Mr. Prideaux added the share gains are well-spread, including Germany, Russia and Argentina.”

  The Wall Street Journal: BAT Rides Recovery

• “An easterner by birth and a connoisseur of fine wines and a well-spread table, he nevertheless was completely comfortable in the roughs of remote mountains, prairies, and deserts.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Country of Vast Designs

• “We have a very well-spread risk," Mr. van Boxmeer said.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Heineken Says Mexican Deal Can Deliver

• “He had hardly taken his seat at the well-spread table, when Mrs. Steele entered the room, and carefully closed the door behind her.”

  History of American Women

• “And laughter-loving Aphrodite, with face turned away and lovely eyes downcast, crept to the well-spread couch which was already laid with soft coverings for the hero; and upon it lay skins of bears and deep-roaring lions which he himself had slain in the high mountains.”

  Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

• “But his sisters heard his pitiful wailing and sprang down from their well-spread beds: one of them took up the child in her arms and laid him in her bosom, while another revived the fire, and a third rushed with soft feet to bring their mother from her fragrant chamber.”

  Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

• “The very name reminds me of early rising, healthy activity, merriment, and a well-spread board.”

  The Englishwoman in America

• “The familiar room, with the dark ceiling, the well-spread table, the old chairs, had never before spoken so eloquently of the times ere she knew or had heard of Charley Stow.”

  A Changed Man

• “Direct democracy seemed to suit him because he was so famous that it was believed—and he believed—that he could manipulate the electorate with his celebrity; he was so well liked as a film persona, such a comforting presence, such a masculine protector, such a well-spread meme.”

  Simon & Schuster: I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen

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