sweeping
adjective
of wide range or scope.
sweepingly
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a word derived from
sweeping.
Example Sentences
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And even if the modern melodrama rarely gets sweepingly positive reviews, they still make a boatload of cash.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
Unfortunately, Mahmoud’s author, Justice Samuel Alito, wrote the opinion so sweepingly that this interpretation is entirely plausible.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
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
As Oppenheimer is confronted with the gravest consequences of theory becoming practice, a story of human intelligence and enterprise becomes one of monstrous, clockwork-like betrayals, some sweepingly systemic and some intimately personal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 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
