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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of broaden.

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Examples

  • The new label broadens previous warnings involving cancer patients and states that the drugs "shortened overall survival" in patients with advanced breast, head and neck, lymphoid, and nonsmall-cell-lung cancers in clinical studies when used at generally higher-than-recommended doses.

    Label for Anemia Drugs 2007

  • cdv USA Bringing My Little Baby to Nintendo DS in Spring 2009 dtp young's virtual baby title broadens cdv USA's commitment to handheld games.

    IGN DS 2008

  • This expanded recall broadens the scope to include all compressed inflator propellant which was produced using equipment that experienced a problem, therefore, based on our understanding, this action would rule out the possibility of the same incidents occurring in the future.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • This expanded recall broadens the scope to include all compressed inflator propellant which was produced using equipment that experienced a problem, therefore, based on our understanding, this action would rule out the possibility of the same incidents occurring in the future.

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2010

  • This expanded recall broadens the scope to include all compressed inflator propellant which was produced using equipment that experienced a problem, therefore, based on our understanding, this action would rule out the possibility of the same incidents occurring in the future.

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2010

  • This expanded recall broadens the scope to include all compressed inflator propellant which was produced using equipment that experienced a problem, therefore, based on our understanding, this action would rule out the possibility of the same incidents occurring in the future.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • This expanded recall broadens the scope to include all compressed inflator propellant which was produced using equipment that experienced a problem, therefore, based on our understanding, this action would rule out the possibility of the same incidents occurring in the future.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • This expanded recall broadens the scope to include all compressed inflator propellant which was produced using equipment that experienced a problem, therefore, based on our understanding, this action would rule out the possibility of the same incidents occurring in the future.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • It's real handy when you wantta find out how to visit 'em sort of intimate like, and it kind of broadens yer mind.

    The City of Fire Grace Livingston Hill 1906

  • "broadens" us, even though the evidence shows that it constricts and chokes free thinking and serious questioning.

    American Thinker 2010

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