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widespread

/wahyd-spred/US // ˈwaɪdˈsprɛd //UK // (ˈwaɪdˌsprɛd) //

广泛的,普遍的,广泛,普遍存在

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : spread over or open, or occupying a wide space.
    • : distributed over a wide region, or occurring in many places or among many persons or individuals: widespread poverty.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.extensive
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Examples

  • The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting widespread shift to remote learning have brought major changes to physical education.

  • One review concluded that the available evidence doesn’t suggest widespread harm to humans—but added that the evidence is limited.

  • That’s worrisome to some health experts, who note that other events celebrated with widespread get-togethers, such as Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, have been accompanied by a jump in infections.

  • Verily, a health tech sister company of Google, was touted early on as a potential solution to provide widespread testing across the country.

  • The Fed’s ongoing intervention in the market will probably hold down rates, but Blake anticipates they will rise slowly as coronavirus vaccinations become more widespread.

  • But the inability to measure progress in the ISIS campaign is widespread.

  • Where the force generating those threats is a widespread, self-sustaining, and virulent social movement?

  • Those same studies unsurprisingly reveal widespread distrust of police officers among sex workers.

  • Widespread, popular protests began last week after the local grand jury decision.

  • It is this very sensitive issue that has galvanized widespread resistance from previously loyal campesinos.

  • Discontent was so widespread that the new general at once ordered all troops, save some three thousand, to leave the capital.

  • Mr. Ward is a man of great talents—his fame is widespread as an orator and man of learning, and needs no encomium from us.

  • The commercial motorcycle is said to be gaining widespread favor, and therein lies its greatest future.

  • Scotch intellectual activity is the result of a widespread education which is within the reach of the poorest.

  • An examination of Elizabethan writings does not conduce to the idea of the term having had a widespread acceptation.