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Wide-ranging   /waɪd-rˈeɪndʒɪŋ/   Listen
Wide-ranging

adjective
1.
Including much.
2.
Widely different.  Synonym: varied.  "Varied ethnic traditions of the immigrants"





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"Wide-ranging" Quotes from Famous Books



... the deck. When the imprisoned wretches in the hold become desperate enough—and it is simply a question of time—they will fire the ship or scuttle it, and the fools and their victims will all perish together. True intellect is broad, fore-sighted, wide-ranging, merciful, just. Some one said of old that 'the gods showed what they thought of riches by the kind of people they gave them to.' It is not the poets, the philosophers, the philanthropists, the historians, the sages, the scholars, the really intellectual of any ...
— Caesar's Column • Ignatius Donnelly
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... are few and all of wide-ranging species. The most common is the burrowing-owl, found in both Americas. Not a retiring owl this, but all day long, in cold and in heat, it stands exposed at the mouth of its kennel, or on the vizcacha's mound, staring at the passer-by with ...
— The Naturalist in La Plata • W. H. Hudson
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Words linked to "Wide-ranging" :   large, diversified, big


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