Example Sentences

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Spreading your equity portfolio across sectors and a variety of factors can help improve the odds of capturing gains when the outlier stocks start outperforming.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

Spreading its bets, HSG is increasingly looking for big-ticket investments in private equity and has set up offices in Singapore, London and Tokyo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

"Spreading a positive message and helping people less fortunate than myself, that's what makes me the happiest."

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

Spreading over dozens of hectares of protected tropical rainforest, Tacugama is home to the critically endangered Western chimpanzee, which is threatened by habitat loss and poaching for bushmeat.

From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025

Spreading broad wings and reaching talons out, he met the two head on, withering them with fire, and then turned to the third, who was larger than he and armed also with fire.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin