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单词 broad
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broad
(brɔːd )
Word forms: broader , broadest , broads
1. adjective B1+
Something that is broad is wide.
His shoulders were broad and his waist narrow.
The hills rise green and sheer above the broad river.
...a broad expanse of green lawn.
Synonyms: wide, large, ample, generous  
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B1+
A broad smile is one in which your mouth is stretched very wide because you are very pleased or amused.
He greeted them with a wave and a broad smile.
broadly adverb B1+
Charles grinned broadly.
Synonyms: widely, greatly, hugely, vastly  
3. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2
You use broad to describe something that includes a large number of different things or people.
A broad range of issues was discussed.
...a broad coalition of workers, peasants, students and middle class professionals.
Synonyms: full, general, comprehensive, complete  
broadly adverb [ADVERB with verb] B2
This gives children a more broadly based education.
Synonyms: generally, commonly, widely, universally  
4. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
You use broad to describe a word or meaning which covers or refers to a wide range of different things.
The term Wissenschaft has a much broader meaning than the English word 'science'.
...restructuring in the broad sense of the word.
broadly adverb [ADVERB with verb]
We define education very broadly.
5. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
You use broad to describe a feeling or opinion that is shared by many people, or by people of many different kinds.
The agreement won broad support in the U.S. Congress.
...a film with broad appeal.
Synonyms: universal, general, common, wide  
broadly adverb [ADVERB with verb]
The new law has been broadly welcomed by road safety organisations.
6. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
A broad description or idea is general rather than detailed.
These documents provided a broad outline of the Society's development.
We have discussed in broad terms the course of action appropriate at each stage.
Synonyms: general, loose, vague, approximate  
broadly adverb [ADVERB with verb]
There are, broadly speaking, three ways in which this is done.
Broadly, it makes connections between ideas about healing and how they link to plants.
7. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
A broad hint is a very obvious hint.
They've been giving broad hints about what to expect.
Synonyms: unsubtle, clear, straightforward, bold  
broadly adverb
He hinted broadly that he would like to come.
Synonyms: blatantly, unsubtly, clearly, overtly  
8. adjective
A broad accent is strong and noticeable.
...a Briton who spoke in a broad Yorkshire accent.
9. countable noun
Some people refer to women as broads. This use could cause offence. [US, informal]
10.  See also broadly
11. in broad daylight phrase
If you say that a crime is committed in broad daylight, you are expressing your surprise that it is done during the day when people can see it, rather than at night. [emphasis]
A girl was attacked on a train in broad daylight.
The robbery happened in broad daylight in a busy part of town.
Synonyms: in public, in full view, in the light of day  
Idioms:
do something in broad daylight
to do something illegal or bad openly in the daytime, when people can see it. This expression is often used to emphasize behaviour that is surprising or shocking.
The paintings — valued at $20 million — were stolen in broad daylight by armed men, as some forty visitors looked on.
a broad church [British]
an organization, group or area of activity that includes a wide range of opinions, beliefs or styles
Rock music in France is a very broad church indeed.
in broad strokes
in general terms rather than in detail
The speech will lay out in broad strokes the two candidates' differing approaches towards how best to stimulate the economy.
Collocations:
broad category
A broad category of digital media and entertainment companies - including online gaming firms - have also performed strongly this year, with 14 slots on the league table.
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Another broad category of gestures comprises those gestures used spontaneously when we speak.
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The broad category of branching hierarchies can be further subdivided based on the degree.
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Previously, the trochleitis syndrome had been included in the broad category of idiopathic orbital inflammation (also called orbital pseudotumor).
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The team give out a broad category and listeners must identify 5 specific items of that area in 10 seconds.
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broad chest
He folded his arms across his broad chest, and she watched the muscles flexing under his immaculately pressed shirt.
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They nuzzle his broad chest.
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It has a massive body and large head, a short neck and broad chest.
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He has a broad chest and a full, flowing, golden beard.
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It has a large head, small eyes and a deep, broad chest.
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broad coalition
Six design teams are being shortlisted but they face opposition from a broad coalition of academics and residents.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It is a broad coalition.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The causes prevailed after decades of struggle and after assembling a very broad coalition.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The problem is how to form a broad coalition with these people as only one part.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Once the results are counted, talks will begin to form a broad coalition.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
broad comedy
Now here's an actor at full stretch - timed to a hair, using the space, mixing subtlety into broad comedy and absurdity into emotion.
Times, Sunday Times
It's hardly highly accomplished, with its blend of broad comedy, melodrama and shameless sentimentality.
Times, Sunday Times
I'd love to do a real western, a broad comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
But it still has considerable power to disturb — a potency achieved through an astute and calculatedly nasty use of broad comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
With its naff wigs, broad comedy and rather crude puppetry, this isn't a show much troubled with subtlety or dramatic sophistication.
Times, Sunday Times
broad community
It could serve to heal the present wounds, uniting people in a new task that would be exciting and of double use to the broad community.
Christianity Today
The program focuses on measurable results and infuses innovation from private industry and has support from a broader community of interested citizens.
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Students also participated in projects where they learned about the history and culture of other groups in their broader community.
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Some are grouped together into broader communities that share similarities in landscape position, structure and/or species.
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However, such a debate must always be focused on the end goal of defining, protecting, and advancing the interests of the broader community....
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broad concern
The article brings to bear scholarly work and academic perspectives on policy issues that are of broad concern.
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The three other elders were nonplussed; they found the broad concerns groundless and the specific considerations erroneous.
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A broader concern has been voiced about the public accountability of comitology.
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Moreover, many people express through their fear of crime some broader concerns about neighbourhood breakdown, the loss of moral authority, and the crumbling of civility and social capital.
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This has looked at actions such as directives, requests and threats and has a broader concern about the contribution of interaction analysis to the study of obesity.
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broad conclusion
Making a very broad conclusion based on a single incident or a single piece of evidence.
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He reaches broad conclusions on the long-term needs of all the major modes of transport, but identifies very few projects for increasing capacity.
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There are two broad conclusions.
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That said, there may be two broad conclusions to be drawn.
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Independent experts said the relatively small sample size also made it hard to draw broad conclusions.
Times, Sunday Times
broad consensus
There's no broad consensus on his foreign policy.
Times, Sunday Times
Successful industrial policy requires a broad consensus and long time horizons, not partisanship and policy zigzags.
Times, Sunday Times
I believe that even at this late hour we can actually establish a broad consensus on these practical reforms.
Times, Sunday Times
For energy policies to work, however, there must be broad consensus and consistent action.
Times, Sunday Times
This broad consensus has been sustained with hour-by-hour co-ordination.
Times, Sunday Times
broad context
She originally wanted to publish the play alone, but her editor persuaded her to 'plant it in the broad context of history'.
Times, Sunday Times
We need to see service in a broad context.
Christianity Today
Although he wrote the architectural hagiographies that most freelance architectural journalists have to write to survive, his main interest was the broad context in which architecture operated.
Times, Sunday Times
First- and second-year students at each one of the colleges develop a strong a background in a broad context of liberal arts classes.
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It has been inferred from this plurality that this mythology flourished in an exceptionally broad context.
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broad cross-section
The schools are a broad cross-section, in rural as well as inner-city areas, and together they are responsible for educating hundreds of thousands of pupils.
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But an economic contraction of 2.8 per cent this year will mean significant job losses across a broad cross-section of the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
Finally, party leaders must ensure that they involve a broad cross-section of their parties rather than just their immediate inner circles in the finalisation of any coalition.
Times, Sunday Times
It would help a broad cross-section of society.
Times, Sunday Times
He found a broad cross-section of society there, with most of them calling for a peaceful transition of power.
Times, Sunday Times
broad discretion
Subject to those principles the court had a broad discretion.
Times, Sunday Times
He threshold applicable to rule 3.4(2) was much higher than would be the case were the court exercising a broad discretion under rule 14.1 (5).
Times, Sunday Times
And any reviewing court would give very broad discretion to the original decision that was made.
Times, Sunday Times
Parliament had conferred on the office of the adjudicator a broad discretion.
Times, Sunday Times
So could create up several courts with broad discretion in decision outside the legal framework.
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broad discussion
Hence, there will be scope for broad discussion on these and related ethical issues.
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Decisions are reached through broad discussion within the party.
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He also resisted the broad discussions that took place, where the way to follow was, in his view, already recorded in these legal guidelines.
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Engaging in relationship talk such as metatalk prompts broader discussions about what each partner desires from the relationship and aligns expectations.
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In more recent times, the body has become a subject of much broader discussion and treatment than can be reduced to body art in its common understanding.
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broad expanse
As you crest the lip of a valley, the dam spreads out below, a broad expanse of water embraced by mountains.
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In its place was concrete topped by a thin layer of soil with a broad expanse of lawn.
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Sometimes, towards the end, broad expanses of the pieces of wood on which he most liked to paint are left uncovered.
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Its broad expanses of forests were also heavily logged until a logging ban was introduced in 1999.
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The design incorporates broad expanses of windows and balconies which reach out into their surroundings.
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broad front
Lapwings love to advance on a broad front - a ribbon 500-strong flew above my head.
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But to carry the plans into effect, they will need to convince a broad front of critics that they are not weakening respect for the courts.
Times, Sunday Times
These were dug in along a broad front in familiar territory, behind minefields and barbed wire.
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Various physical and chemical factors in the buildings were examined on a broad front.
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This was as part of the two-directioned concepts, one being infantry-centred broad front and the other being a shock army.
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broad grin
His joy was unbounded and, for the success of his tactics, he was entitled to his broad grin.
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He finally settles down in his office with a broad grin on his face.
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He sprung to his feet, broad grin on his face, and touched his cap in recognition.
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There was a pause, and then a broad grin.
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The turnaround from devastation to devastating a year ago left her with a broad grin on her face.
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broad implication
This has been a campaign fought on a tiny canvas but with broad implications.
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This was a test case with 'extremely broad implications', he added.
Times, Sunday Times
This had two broad implications.
The Times Literary Supplement
The discovery has broad implications.
The Scientist
However, it has broader implications, implicitly touching every aspect of the economics, politics, institutional development, and human development of oral societies.
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broad interest
They are replaced by a broad interest in a wide range of art historical references.
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He has a broad interest in sports, particularly cricket and football.
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The progressively more severe reports and estimates of event probability and consequences have awakened a broad interest in training people for emergency response.
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Theoretical studies are acceptable if they are tied closely to the interpretation of experimental data and elucidate principles of broad interest.
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He was excellent in choosing topics of upcoming broad interest (as energy supply) and describing them with a provocative and interest catching prose.
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broad interpretation
Local authorities had been put under pressure by a ruling earlier this year that gave a broad interpretation of the concept of liberty.
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Sustainability economics represents:... a broad interpretation of ecological economics where environmental and ecological variables and issues are basic but part of a multidimensional perspective.
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This was a particularly broad interpretation of extraprovincial trade as it included even egg producers who did not export their products.
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The broad interpretation permits the general acquisition of secular culture and knowledge as valuable in its own right.
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This broad interpretation focuses on new applications and developments, and also brings learning and media psychology into consideration.
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broad issue
But that's quite a broad issue.
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According to their website, they work on four broad issue areas: healthy community food systems, healthy schools, healthy land use planning, and food marketing.
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Cartoons thrive on the broad brush strokes of caricature, just like philosophy deals with big, broad issues like truth, justice, the good, identity, consciousness, morality and meaning.
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They can help to explore broader issues regarding the evolution of a major federal agency.
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Upper two ranks of the bureaucrats made the resolutions on the broad issues to ratify essential articles or policies of the government.
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broad knowledge
He also exhibits an impressively broad knowledge, spanning the globe.
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His views are based on a broad knowledge of ecology and the birding world.
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To make sense of such a life requires the broad knowledge of a historian and the sensitivity of a gifted biographer.
The Times Literary Supplement
But his broad knowledge, his gift for metaphor and his wonderful voice made him compulsory listening.
The Times Literary Supplement
Given her broad knowledge of history, to whom would she compare him?
Times, Sunday Times
broad measure
Yet owning shares was a better investment than owning property over the last decade on the broad measure of capital value.
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The broad measure of industrial production also fell, by 0.3 per cent.
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Equities, on a broad measure, are up by about 50 per cent in the past five years.
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Since they began saving in 1986, both invested a total of 36,000 in the same broad measure of about 1,000 shares.
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Broad measures of economic activity have reflected solid, if unspectacular, growth.
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broad movement
Their theories are now encompassed in the broader movement of progressive education.
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The campaign has been cited as being part of a broader movement including many comparable campaigns.
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So it can be more useful to think in terms of broad movements that have rough beginnings and endings.
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broad outline
Everyone reads the passage before-hand, and the minister takes a few moments to sketch the broad outline of his message.
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The bank produces a weekly balance sheet giving a broad outline of its exposures.
Times, Sunday Times
They simply showed the country its broad outline ... and a majority liked it.
The Sun
But the broad outline of the bitterness remains.
Times, Sunday Times
I discussed that issue with him in broad outline.
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broad overview
She believes that her career progression has given her a broad overview of business.
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It begins with a broad overview of the history and philosophy of parapsychology, which looks back to the early days of hypnotism in the 1850s when it was called mesmerism.
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This page attempts to provide a broad overview of some of the issues in question that may be considered challenging in nature.
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This article provides only a broad overview of some of the different types and concerns of data integrity.
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The big-five are important for understanding and interpreting an individual's personality profile mainly in getting a broad overview of their personality make-up at the highest level of personality organization.
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broad pattern
In fact, when one examines the low level breakdown of how each sector and sub-sector has performed over the crisis, a broad pattern presents itself.
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This was essentially an outline plan and delineated only a broad pattern of development.
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The experts saw broad patterns in survival outcomes and believe that the information could help them to pinpoint treatments.
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Although the technique did not identify any genetic variations that had an effect on intelligence by themselves, they found that broad patterns of genetic variation correlated closely with it.
Times, Sunday Times
The strongest pieces do not stop there but either try to interpret broad patterns or look attentively at a smaller but highly suggestive picture.
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broad principle
The broad principle was reasonableness between neighbours.
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Yet the broad principle holds.
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Broad principles seem to have been his preferred message.
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But while the inclination of statesmen to derive broad principles from specific circumstances should be resisted, this much can be said reliably.
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You don't mind the abstract; you work well at that level and have come to appreciate the usefulness of broad principles.
Christianity Today
broad public
For this reason, we are setting up a fund involving a broad public to afford the maximum possible protection for unspoilt forests and their populations and fauna.
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That said the government would almost certainly receive broad public support to access personal data if it paved the way for some easing of the lockdown.
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After seven years of consultation and inquiry that have revealed broad public, scientific and ethical approval, the government has proposed regulations that would allow these families to benefit.
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The existing measures work and have broad public support.
Times, Sunday Times
The settlers used to enjoy broad public sympathy.
Houston Chronicle
broad range of
Having a broad range of books available in the school library is a good start, but parents also need to play a part.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
You have to be very careful to get a really broad range of views.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Drink more and the risks of stroke, high blood pressure, cirrhosis of the liver and a broad range of cancers also increases.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Now it continues to push forward crucial economic reforms in a broad range of areas.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
These models encompassed a broad range from the smaller to the larger class of automobile but with the main emphasis on the middle-class vehicle.
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broad scale
Is this not schadenfreude on a broad scale?
Smithsonian
Their project involves the aggregation and categorization of large numbers of texts, producing graphs and statistics to show the movement of ideas and trends on a broad scale.
The Times Literary Supplement
The early specialization of our schooling, the brevity of the university course the financial barriers to graduate study on a broad scale all militate against a training in comparative work.
The Times Literary Supplement
It was written on a broad scale, forming a history of the whole city from 1524 to 1554, including many eyewitness accounts.
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In spite of this, satellites in space archaeology are mostly a tool for broad scale survey and focused excavation.
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broad scope
Given my broad scope, my name makes sense.
Houston Chronicle
Such has it been a campaign of broad scope and fine margins.
Times, Sunday Times
It was close, hence his delight in his barrel chest, but the narrow margins merely highlighted the broad scope of his story.
Times, Sunday Times
Accordingly, his history has a very broad scope, which favours the deployment of literary imagination.
The Times Literary Supplement
In a work of such broad scope, errors are inevitable.
The Times Literary Supplement
broad selection
The festival will have a broad selection of comedy styles from across the globe.
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The things that customers want fall into three primary categories, he said: low prices, broad selection and a 'terrifically convenient experience'.
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The group offers a wide range of postal products, from express mail services to a broad selection of financial products.
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According to organizational development thinking, organization development provides managers with a vehicle for introducing change systematically by applying a broad selection of management techniques.
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It carries a broad selection of merchandise, sometimes in a small space, where people from the town and surrounding rural areas come to purchase all their general goods.
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broad sense
Even his love songs are concerned with a broad sense of humanity, never just one person.
Times, Sunday Times
But it could and should give a broad sense of how taxes will be brought down over time.
The Sun
In the broad sense, for example, despite having won three grand slams in the past eight years, they fared poorly in the following campaigns of 2006 and 2009.
Times, Sunday Times
Maintaining stability, in the broad sense of balance between overall demand and supply-side capacity to meet that demand, will not be easy over the next year or two.
Times, Sunday Times
The stakeholders here are the creditors in the broad sense.
Globe and Mail
broad set
While critics welcomed the news, some noted that it was only one element of a broad set of surveillance measures.
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In our increasingly globalised society, students seek a broad set of curriculum options, personal access to the best professors, affordability, and exposure to an international context.
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You need a broad set of shoulders.
Times, Sunday Times
The two countries share a broad set of values, based on the rule of law and respect for the rights of the individual.
Globe and Mail
Broad set off down the pitch in one of those rather presumptuous celebrations.
Times, Sunday Times
broad significance
It took some time for the world to grasp the broad significance of what he was arguing.
Times, Sunday Times
His approach to problems was always of a fundamental character and often yielded results of broad significance.
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This has broad significance for the recognition of indigenous groups and their right to preserve their land and culture.
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broad smile
He looks every inch the family butcher, with a broad smile, swarthy hands and robust waistline.
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`Full English breakfast, monsieur," he said with a broad smile.
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His broad smile disappeared, his dark eyes narrowed and his famous face hardened.
The Sun (2012)
She greeted her parents' guests with a broad smile, but looked pained to find her parents arguing.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
broad strategy
That unfamiliar state of affairs will vindicate the coalition's broad strategy of reining in the state while coaxing the private sector back to growth.
Times, Sunday Times
Compared with this consensus on broad strategy, the differences between the parties are fairly minor.
Times, Sunday Times
So, although even now the rabbits are being dreamt up for the chancellor to pull out of his hat on budget day, the broad strategy appears clear.
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The resolution reaffirmed the need for a broad strategy of conflict prevention which addressed the causes of the conflict in order to protect civilians.
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Deception began to be used formally on the battlefield as well as in broader strategy.
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broad support
Any question of more taxpayer money should depend upon whether parties can gain broad support, and money, from voters.
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But there was broad support for new green taxes on consumers and businesses.
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There would be broad support for such a proposal.
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Labour also indicated that it was in broad support.
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Its view has attracted broad support from most of the northern states in the eurozone.
Times, Sunday Times
broad swath
For the broad swath of human history, economics has been an important factor in deciding whom to marry, particularly among the upper class.
Christianity Today
These businesses solve vexing problems for large numbers of users, and by their nature capture a broad swath of data from their customers.
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To give a little flexibility, the timetable gave trains a broad swath of time to allow for some delay.
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After the novelty wears off, the primary audience might be lawyers and lobbyists, rather than any broad swath of voters.
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The beach features a very broad swath of golden sand, and a good sized buoyed swimming area, which can get a bit choppy if wind and wave conditions are unfavourable.
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broad sweep
We can all recall the broad sweep, but what about the details?
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Those instances are typical of the work's impressively broad sweep.
Times, Sunday Times
This show, though small, has a satisfyingly broad sweep.
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The broad sweep of wonderful beach stretches for six miles, curving around a classic family resort.
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Hearing such a broad sweep revealed things in perspective.
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broad term
I think of it as a broad term, one that includes any imaginary world or society in which you wouldn't want to live.
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Locally this revolved around the word obusinge, a broad term meaning health, wholeness, peace.
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Linked to and allied with homeopathy are all sorts of ideas falling under the broad term 'alternative medicine' (the phrase that came to replace the word 'quack' in the 1970s).
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He argued that it was such a broad term that it was meaningless and few people ever admitted to being neoliberals.
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The broad term special effects includes all the techniques here, but more commonly there are two categories of effects.
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broad understanding
They also give you a broad understanding of the sciences to prepare you to do some experiments on the space station.
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It's a complex profession, requiring a broad understanding of technology, an awareness of how to use data, plus a good grounding in a variety of other scientific and mathematical principles.
Times, Sunday Times
I think there was a broad understanding that the issue was not the law - that some things were bad to do, even if they were legal.
Times, Sunday Times
Education should provide a broad understanding and generic skills.
Times, Sunday Times
A broad understanding of dance as an art form.
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broad vision
We haven't given up on the broad vision, but for now we're investing our energy in meeting needs as best we can with present resources.
Christianity Today
I was more than content for a few rugby writers to believe there was some sort of rugby brain at work, some broad vision.
Times, Sunday Times
It takes spiritual maturity to be an elder; a broad vision of spiritual reality.
Christianity Today
Her compassion, articulacy and broad vision are beyond compare.
Times, Sunday Times
A game plan can be something fashioned by coaches and players, allowing the coach's broad vision to merge with the mucky business of turning it into reality on the pitch.
Times,Sunday Times
overly broad
Elsewhere, the humour becomes a distraction, the playing overly broad.
Times, Sunday Times
The social network said that it responded to valid requests relating to criminal cases but turned down 'overly broad or vague' requests.
Times, Sunday Times
Wide prosecutorial discretion remains because of overly broad criteria.
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Some subsequent comments criticized the definition as overly broad in failing to limit its subject matter to analysis of markets.
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On other issues, she sometimes took overly broad stances that appeared to come down on multiple sides.
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