adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an extensive/wide-ranging review
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He is currently conducting a wide-ranging review of public spending.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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The Decretio Childeberti from 594-6 is more wide-ranging still.
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Questions can therefore be more wide-ranging and open-ended.
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But some topics benefit from more wide-ranging comment before publication.
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Their knowledge and experience of drama will be far more wide-ranging than is commonly acknowledged.
most
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Their fleets soon arrived at Constantinople and the war promised to be the most wide-ranging since the fall of the first Napoleon.
■ NOUN
discussion
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A wide range of activities will stimulate wide-ranging discussion .
review
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The best part of the magazine is the wide-ranging review pages of cassette compilations, demos, flexi discs and singles.
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To the consternation of his cabinet colleagues, he is currently conducting a wide-ranging review of public spending.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a wide-ranging investigation
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A wide-ranging survey found growing dissatisfaction among workers.
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Climate change is likely to have a wide-ranging impact on human health.
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Her criticism was wide-ranging and sometimes contradictory.
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Our discussions were wide-ranging and substantive.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A wide-ranging inquiry into the qualities and styles of leaders.
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Arguments for controlling or reducing the size of public expenditure are wide-ranging but not always convincing.
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Given all this, however, the successors of Ecgfrith preserved and maintained a secure realm within what were still wide-ranging frontiers.
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It will mean that wide-ranging corporate risks will be able to be placed with just one underwriter.
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Such accounts provide detailed and wide-ranging analyses of the psychological and related discourses around these objects.
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The finished product rests in a glorious pop tradition not usually associated with a wide-ranging career like Young's.
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The latter part of the wide-ranging agreement has not yet been consummated.
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Urban politics itself is also a substantial subject and it too has received wide-ranging and systematic attention.