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broad-based

American  
[brawd-beyst] / ˈbrɔdˌbeɪst /

adjective

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

    The senator had a broad-based campaign.


Etymology

Origin of broad-based

broad base + -ed 3

Example Sentences

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Huijin, the state-investment arm that acts as China’s plunge-protection team, stepped back into the market last week, buying broad-based exchange-traded funds tied to stock indices to stabilize the market.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Revenues rose 16.3 percent to $16.7 billion, with the carrier pointing to broad-based growth across different price points and with both international and domestic demand up "meaningfully" from a year ago.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Still, the pickup in price pressures across the economy in the quarter wasn’t particularly broad-based, with measures of core inflation still well behaved, said Abhijit Surya, senior economist at Capital Economics.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

"Ministers maintain that a broad-based GST, accompanied with these support measures, is the most effective way to support people with the cost of GST on food," he said.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Because Seabiscuit’s popularity was so broad-based, reporters from publications that had nothing whatsoever to do with sports covered him.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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