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broadbrush

/ ˈbrɔːdˌbrʌʃ /

adjective

  1. lacking full detail or information; incomplete or rough

    anything other than a broadbrush strategy for the industry will be overloaded with detail

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“This seems like a pretty blatant broadbrush challenge to FDA’s authority.”

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But these three episodes were broadbrush, rather than aimed at specific individuals.

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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.

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They are fashionable political buzz phrases which try to describe what leaving the European Union might actually look like, in big, broadbrush terms.

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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.

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