Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. comparative form of wide: more wide
Examples
“But amid rising demands for U.S. troop pullout, the Bush Administration is launching a new campaign to sell the war as part what it calls a wider conflict against a global enemy.”
“Mr Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, explicitly links this move to what he calls a "wider movement" of ideological aggression by the commission, including proposals for a financial transactions tax across Europe.”
“They are the same price and wider is better for these slings.”
“The remarks represent some of China's most substantive support for the euro zone amid the region's debt troubles, and reflect the Asian giant's growing willingness to wield its economic clout to obtain wider international influence.”
“Briefing notes show the Y-shaped line will cost around £ 11.2 billion to build and £ 1.25 billion a year to run, but will deliver around £ 15 billion more in wider transport benefits and £ 10 billion more in revenue than the S-shaped option.”
The Wall Street Journal: U.K. Outlines High-Speed Rail Vision
“Trees in wider roads also create a perception of narrowness without actually creating narrow roads.”
“This is what a lack of discipline at home, at school and in wider society has wrought.”
“More details on that -- as well as which movies are the steadiest performers of the season and how Hilary Swank's latest did in wider release -- in this week's box office rundown.”
The Washington Post: Weekend box office: 'Saw 3D' comes out on top in Halloween showdown
“The 10-year Irish/German yield spread tested new highs of 460 basis points, 19 points wider from the previous day.”
“The 'not really a thriller' documentaryCatfishis doing okay in wider release, as it grossed $600,000 for the weekend for a current total of $1.6 million on 137 screens thus far.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wider’.
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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