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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Covering a wide area; including much.

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  • adjective widely different
  • adjective including much

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Examples

  • The authorities have arrested dozens of people in what they call a wide-ranging $2.6 billion embezzlement scheme, and opponents of Mr. Ahmadinejad have repeatedly accused his close associates - including his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei - of being linked to the lead suspect.

    NYT > Global Home By ROBERT F. WORTH 2011

  • The authorities have arrested dozens of people in what they call a wide-ranging $2.6 billion embezzlement scheme, and opponents of Mr. Ahmadinejad have repeatedly accused his close associates - including his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei - of being linked to the lead suspect.

    NYT > Home Page By ROBERT F. WORTH 2011

  • The authorities have arrested dozens of people in what they call a wide-ranging $2.6 billion embezzlement scheme, and opponents of Mr. Ahmadinejad have repeatedly accused his close associates - including his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei - of being linked to the lead suspect.

    NYT > Home Page By ROBERT F. WORTH 2011

  • The authorities have arrested dozens of people in what they call a wide-ranging $2.6 billion embezzlement scheme, and opponents of Mr. Ahmadinejad have repeatedly accused his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, of close ties to the lead suspect.

    NYT > Home Page By RICK GLADSTONE 2011

  • The authorities have arrested dozens of people in what they call a wide-ranging $2.6 billion embezzlement scheme, and opponents of Mr. Ahmadinejad have repeatedly accused his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, of close ties to the lead suspect.

    NYT > Home Page By RICK GLADSTONE 2011

  • We can tell you about grace saying and many other aspects of religiosity in the United States because we have conducted extensive surveys of Americans in which we asked a wide-ranging set of questions about their religious lives, as well as their civic involvement, social relationships, political beliefs, economic situation, and demographic profile.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Beginning in 1972, the General Social Survey has asked an extremely detailed question about whether respondents would approve of abortion in a wide-ranging series of situations:

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Taken together, these measures of civic engagement are remarkably wide-ranging.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • In her breezily titled, wide-ranging autobiography, published the week of her death, Meyer wrote: There is "no question in my mind that at bottom of the intense desire for the power of the ballot lay—sometimes hidden, sometimes quite openly—a great deal of sex jealousy amounting in many instances to sex hatred."

    History That Tells An Unexpected Tale Harry Stein 2011

  • Although I have spent most of my life as a professor, this book is not intended as a work of scholarship, but something that is at the same time more personal and more wide-ranging than the things that I usually write.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

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