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widespread

[ wahyd-spred ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

spread over or open, or occupying a wide space.
distributed over a wide region, or occurring in many places or among many persons or individuals:
widespread poverty.
Synonyms: pervasive, far-flung, extensive, far-reaching

widespread

/ ˈwaɪdˌsprɛd /

First recorded in 1695–1705; wide + spread

But the inability to measure progress in the ISIS campaign is widespread.

Where the force generating those threats is a widespread, self-sustaining, and virulent social movement?

Those same studies unsurprisingly reveal widespread distrust of police officers among sex workers.

Widespread, popular protests began last week after the local grand jury decision.

It is this very sensitive issue that has galvanized widespread resistance from previously loyal campesinos.

Discontent was so widespread that the new general at once ordered all troops, save some three thousand, to leave the capital.

Mr. Ward is a man of great talents—his fame is widespread as an orator and man of learning, and needs no encomium from us.

The commercial motorcycle is said to be gaining widespread favor, and therein lies its greatest future.

Scotch intellectual activity is the result of a widespread education which is within the reach of the poorest.

An examination of Elizabethan writings does not conduce to the idea of the term having had a widespread acceptation.

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