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- noun Plural form of
widening .
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Examples
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So, instead of new highways or widenings to improve our existing infrastructure that would employ a large number of trades and provide long-term stimulus in both residential and commercial markets, the money is being thrown at 1-month long pavement preservation contracts.
Biden credits stimulus plan with sparking economic recovery 2009
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Parallel streets create traffic capacity without forcing enormous widenings.
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Some daylilies show elongated widenings along the roots, made by the plant mostly for water storage and an indication of good health.
Brigitte Mars: Delightful Day Lilies with Brigitte Mars 2010
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Requests and widenings of the use of the vernacular were not long in coming.
Archive 2008-01-13 papabear 2008
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And even the proponents of such widenings will admit they are.
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Because the only real congestion remedy is mixed use, not road widening — even though the money spent on them exceeds any transit spending by orders of magnitude — road widenings are a waste of money.
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And building out entails traffic congestion, long commutes, more road construction and widenings (which have tax consequences), higher demand for gasoline (and thus higher gas prices), poorer air quality, and ... you know the rest.
Archive 2007-05-01 David Wharton 2007
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And building out entails traffic congestion, long commutes, more road construction and widenings (which have tax consequences), higher demand for gasoline (and thus higher gas prices), poorer air quality, and ... you know the rest.
Property Paradoxes: Two Rezonings David Wharton 2007
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There were distortions-narrowings, widenings -- which seemed to shift for no particular reason across its surface, as though I viewed the entire tableau through an irregular lens rather than Benedict's Trump.
The Hand of Oberon Zelazny, Roger 1976
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Same as 4th row, with an additional space between widenings; in 5th row make a bean-stitch in every 5th, and so on, with bean-stitch in every 10th, in 10th row.
Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet Anonymous
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