broadbrush
Britishadjective
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“This seems like a pretty blatant broadbrush challenge to FDA’s authority.”
From Science Magazine
But these three episodes were broadbrush, rather than aimed at specific individuals.
From BBC
Barnier was speaking after the European commission discussed his draft negotiating text, known as the directives, which develops the broadbrush guidelines agreed by EU leaders.
From The Guardian
They are fashionable political buzz phrases which try to describe what leaving the European Union might actually look like, in big, broadbrush terms.
From BBC
With conflicts raging in Ukraine, Iraq and Syria - and the future of the Gaza Strip largely uncharted by a broadbrush Egyptian-mediated ceasefire deal - world powers also are not rushing headlong into the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate.
From Reuters
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