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branch out

verb

  1. intr, adverboften foll byinto to expand or extend one's interests

    our business has branched out into computers now



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Idioms and Phrases

Separate into subdivisions; strike off in a new direction. For example, Our software business is branching out into more interactive products , or Bill doesn't want to concentrate on just one field; he wants to branch out more . This term alludes to the growth habits of a tree's limbs. [Early 1700s] Also see branch off .

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Example Sentences

The volume of writing has allowed me to branch out into nonfiction articles as well.

Later I began to branch out on both coasts; my palate expanded in time with the whole Chowhound movement.

But Walmart has been trying to branch out of its blue-state base for years.

She might be Internet famous, but now Haskins is hoping to branch out.

The site will need to branch out into other areas if it hopes to attract more mainstream users.

He'd do it if I urged him; but it's just as you say, he doesn't want to branch out.

We advanced softly up the inlet, and found it to branch out into a broad basin.

It was this episode that made the workers during their next conference branch out in new lines.

With it they were enabled to branch out and not only improve their home plant but put up factories elsewhere.

Do you see those fine lines on the face of the water that branch out like the ribs of a fan.

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