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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
broaden .
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Examples
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Of course all that happened before her horizon had "broadened" -- before she encountered a truly distinguished person like Ridgeley Holman Dobson.
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The definition has been broadened, which is why it's hard to know if there's really been an explosion.
You don't have to be afraid of the TV. You shouldn't let poets lie to you.
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Whereas a so-called broadened mandate was never officially endorsed by a plenary meeting of the UNHRC, neither in the form proposed by Justice Goldstone nor in the form proposed by Ambassador Uhomoibhi;
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As the age wore on, Darwinian terms broadened into biomedical terminology applied as metaphor to language.
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In the animated films, we saw a lot of action with Abe there, and a lot of time punching people and slugging vampires and screaming a lot and things that you didn't see Abe do in the first movie, so that kind of broadened the world of Abe Sapien to me a lot.
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Meanwhile, the White House has "broadened" its court search, says a senior official, a sign that Clinton is unhappy with the current list.
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It started off with stay the course, and then it kind of broadened to this broader war on terror.
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It started off with stay the course, and then it kind of broadened to this broader war on terror.
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It started off with stay the course, and then it kind of broadened to this broader war on terror.
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It started off with stay the course, and then it kind of broadened to this broader war on terror.
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