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Widespread

adjective

Widely circulated or diffused. "Widespread fear of nuclear war"

Distributed over a considerable extent. Synonym: far-flung. "The West's far-flung mountain ranges" , "Widespread nuclear fallout"

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... you will not fight usury by hanging Rothschilds, for usury is worst where that sort of thing is resorted to. Widespread debt is the outcome of bad management and incompetence, economic or social, and only better management will remedy it. Mr. Chesterton is sure that better management is only arrived at by "killing and being killed." He really does urge this method even in civil ...

— Peace Theories and the Balkan War • Norman Angell

... of High-Brows had represented to the proper Authorities that, as a result of widespread Interest in the demoralizing Pastime, ordinary Conversation on the tail-end of a Trolley Car was becoming unintelligible to University Graduates, and the Reports in the Daily Press had passed beyond the Ken of a mere ...

— Knocking the Neighbors • George Ade

... hauled two miles on greased slides or ways and safely launched on the bosom of the "father of lakes." The undertaking was considered one of great difficulty, if not of absolute impossibility, and its success gave Messrs. Johnson & Tisdale widespread notoriety. ...

— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin

... pocket-pistols,—two things taboo in the country at that time. This, however, may have been the Yankee captain's joke. As the night deepened torches were seen flitting hither and thither, the crowds thickened, the whispers and hushed talk increased by degrees to a widespread, menacing growl, then arose to a roar. Now drums were heard in the barracks, and the light, quick tread of marching feet could be distinguished through the babble of voices. The mob was slowly wedging itself into one of the streets before an inn, and just at the doors ...

— Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate • Charles M. Skinner

... contributed to the widespread use and long-continued demands for Webster's Spelling Book, which was copyrighted. This book had the support of the authority of Webster's Dictionary—an original American work; and it soon became a staple article of merchandise which was kept ...

— A History of the McGuffey Readers • Henry H. Vail

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