sweepingly
- a word derived from sweeping.
Example Sentences
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Unfortunately, Mahmoud’s author, Justice Samuel Alito, wrote the opinion so sweepingly that this interpretation is entirely plausible.
From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025
The eye with which Avilés surveys this unwieldy human and animal circus is at once strikingly unsentimental and sweepingly egalitarian.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024
But in keeping with the sweepingly romantic, idealistic bent of the series and of the best-selling Anthony Doerr novel on which it is based, Marie-Laure and Werner have much in common.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2023
Mr Brenneisen acknowledges that Switzerland is a wealthy country, making it more feasible to sweepingly implement high building standards there.
From BBC • Sep. 7, 2023
More sweepingly, it suggested that the enormous but latent potential of the American economy required more than mere release to achieve its full potential.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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