wide-rang·ing

[wahyd-reyn-jing]
adjective
extending over a large area; extensive or diversified in scope: wide-ranging lands; a wide-ranging discussion.

Origin:
1810–20

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wide-ranging

adjective
1. including much; "the pianist's wide-ranging repertoire" 
2. widely different; "varied motives prompt people to join a political party"; "varied ethnic traditions of the immigrants" [syn: varied
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Wideranging is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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His melodies are often long, asymmetrical and wideranging in tessitura.
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