broad-based

[brawd-beyst]

adjective

1. involving participation or support by a broad spectrum of things or people.

   The senator had a broad-based campaign.

Word History and Origins

Origin of broad-based¹

broad base + -ed ³

Example Sentences

CEO Gayn Erickson said the company remained cautious due to ongoing tariff-related uncertainty and wasn’t reinstating formal guidance yet, but was “confident in the broad-based growth opportunities ahead across AI and our other markets.”

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As a sign of YIMBY’s broad-based appeal, consider the choice of New Haven: a mostly poor, majority-minority, post-industrial city whose population is a double-digit percentage below its midcentury peak.

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Danny Werfel, IRS commissioner during the Biden administration, said the privacy laws allowing federal investigators to obtain taxpayer data have never “been read to open the door to the sharing of thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of tax records for a broad-based enforcement initiative.”

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He encouraged residents to stay informed, voice their concerns to public officials and work to build broad-based bipartisan coalitions to amplify shared priorities when it comes to the state’s environment.

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All of the most popular broad-based index funds have a lot of Tesla in them now, and you might not like that this is the kind of thing that indirectly affects your retirement, but that ship left port long ago.

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