adjective
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a sweeping curve (= wide and gentle )
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the sweeping curve of the bay
a sweeping statement (= one that is too general )
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Researchers do not want to make any sweeping statements at this stage.
broad/sweeping/gross generalization
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a sweeping generalization based on speculation
far-reaching/sweeping reforms (= reforms that affect many things or have a great effect )
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The new government instituted a series of far-reaching reforms.
sweeping changes (= affecting many things or people, especially because of an official decision )
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There are likely to be sweeping changes in the company.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
change
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He also advocated sweeping changes in education.
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Yet the most sweeping changes and the most fertile inventions have in the last decade come from New York.
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This option allows you to make more sweeping changes - for example you can go from a bar chart to a line chart.
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The report also called for sweeping changes in the way medicines were given to children.
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One of Thames's latest money-saving schemes involves making sweeping changes to contract terms.
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The reshuffle involved sweeping changes in economic portfolios.
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Some people would like to see load-shedding trigger a sweeping change in New York's whole relationship with the surrounding region.
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In other areas of education, there will be more sweeping changes .
reform
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Economic reforms On Nov. 16 sweeping reforms were announced in a step towards a free-market economy.
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After a tour and a few interviews with convicts, she was in favour of sweeping reforms .
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Oversold health-care shares are now rebounding, as Mr Clinton's ability to push through sweeping reform begins to look limited.
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It is not too early to start thinking about sweeping reforms , as history shows.
statement
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This is a sweeping statement which makes little obvious sense on first reading, so let us dissect it more carefully.
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Of course, this is usually so, but I am having little niggling doubts about such a sweeping statement .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sweeping novel
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He also advocated sweeping changes in education.
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In my opinion, that submission was too sweeping .
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It was Gerald Kaufman, shadow foreign secretary, who did that for him, in a speech of vast sweeping grasp.
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The cloth is liberally soaked and wiped over the surface in a smooth sweeping motion.
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Yet the most sweeping changes and the most fertile inventions have in the last decade come from New York.