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widens

  • present tense form of widen (3rd person singular).

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Appeared in the May 29, 2026, print edition as 'Gap in Profits, Worker Pay Widens'.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Appeared in the April 17, 2026, print edition as 'Equality of the Sexes Widens the Class Divide'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Rift Widens Over Mining of Uranium in Virginia CHATHAM, Va. — In a landscape of rolling pastures and grazing cattle, Stewart East stepped from his pickup truck with a Geiger counter.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2013

"Widens the band's influence-pool to include Queen, the Zombies and Wings" – avclub.com.

From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2012

Each new delight of sense, Each hope, each love, each fear, Widens, relumes and recreates each sphere, From a new ring and nimbus of pre-eminence.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred