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widespread

[wahyd-spred]

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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.

Origin:
1695–1705; wide + spread

Synonyms
2. far-reaching, extensive, pervasive, far-flung.

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The case drew widespread interest for its potentially chilling effect.

The strongest definition of cyberwar requires that cyberattacks cause widespread harm, rather than mere inconvenience.

These walls of water can cause widespread destruction when they crash ashore.

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The case drew widespread interest for its potentially chilling effect.

The strongest definition of cyberwar requires that cyberattacks cause widespread harm, rather than mere inconvenience.

These walls of water can cause widespread destruction when they crash ashore.

Nonexpert treatment shown to be more effective than primary care in soothing widespread anxiety.

The study probably won't change the widespread belief in inebriated pachyderms, though.

Widespread and variable group of rhizomatous ferns, once called spleenwort for alleged medicinal value.

There's some hope the bill will be stopped, in no small part due to a widespread internet campaign to stop the bill.

Despite some violence, the strike won widespread public support.

The political situation is expected to remain broadly stable, but there will be widespread disaffection with the weak parliament.

Global warming may cause widespread amphibian extinctions by triggering lethal epidemics, a new study reports.

Rocky debut for a nicotine mimic tempers hope for widespread use.

It's in the field in several countries, but not on a widespread basis.

Oxygen-starved ocean dead zones may be more widespread than thought.

Unfortunately, today such involvement is neither widespread nor growing.

It was the widespread use of the printing press that changed all that.

Signs of recent evolution by natural selection are widespread across the human genome, experts say.

Instead, new inventions often become cultural fixtures despite widespread popular opposition.

Fortunately, the paranoia currently festering is not yet sufficiently widespread to repeat our earlier mistake.

One major hurdle to the widespread adoption of electric vehicles is the time needed to recharge them.

Of course, agents do play a big role in the widespread fraud.

And while recent incidents have had serious and sometimes fatal consequences, they have hardly resulted in widespread chaos.

But severe earthquakes that cause widespread destruction happen on average once every five years.

High equipment costs and a steep learning curve, among other factors, are hindering widespread adoption of no-till practices.

Biochar is the only carbon-negative process that can also be profitable, ensuring its widespread adoption.

If the power outage is widespread and long-lasting, there may be no working gas pumps in your area.

Climate scientist warns world of widespread suffering if further climate change is not forestalled.

If not a consensus view, it is by now a widespread view.

Fish started becoming more widespread in the fossil record.

As such, the widespread conversion of peat bogs into commercial uses around the world is serious cause for alarm.

The annals of marketing and design are filled with tales of products that gained widespread popularity for unintended uses.

America lacked a widespread system of job training through labor unions working in collaboration with government.

After months of indiscriminate fear, widespread losses and government hand-holding, the banking industry is gradually stabilising.

Widespread as a semi-domesticated bird in city parks and on reservoirs.

The bill's sponsors say it expects to have widespread support on both sides of the partisan divide.

Global climate change could cause widespread extinction of all sorts of plant and animals.

Faculty complaints about grade changes are widespread in the for-profit sector.

Underground businesses are widespread in agriculture, construction and services.

During certain times of year, krill congregate in swarms so dense and widespread that they can be seen from space.

Let us examine what the research tells us about how widespread successful self-change is for problem drinking and drug addiction.

EVs are here, but a widespread public charging infrastructure is still years away.

Such an outcome is as counter-intuitive as it is widespread.

The debt crisis is deeper and more widespread than almost anyone feared at the start of the year.

Lack of confidence in the police and government is widespread.

Many scientists weren't surprised to see triclosan turn up in dolphins, due to the chemical's widespread use.

Widespread use of biochips could remove the guesswork from early treatment of many diseases.

Yet malaria comes in several versions, two of which are widespread.

Marine scientists know when widespread overfishing of the seas began.

The millimeter-long animals are widespread in freshwater environments.

But some newspapers have continued to question why panic should be so widespread.

In parts of the world, the illegal pet trade and medicine trades are huge and can have widespread effects.

Apple has pulled an iPhone game that involved shaking a baby to death in response to widespread outrage from parents.

It could be worse this time, he believes, because the crisis is more widespread.

Australian blue-tongued lizards are widespread over our great country.

One of the big hurdles to the widespread adoption of electric vehicles is the time it takes to charge the battery.

But allowing widespread private businesses requires a host of other changes.

Scientists have known for decades about bet hedging, which is widespread in the natural world.

My honest opinion is that solar technology is not efficient or economic enough for widespread use.

From schools to packs to swarms to flocks, collective behavior is widespread among animals.

Walcott drew widespread attention for his proposals to improve the city's lagging middle schools, and some criticism as well.

The implications of widespread academic misconduct could be great.

Amazon's widespread problems highlight the risks of relying on cloud computing.

Given the widespread concern that too many students are dropping out of college.

If the world hopes to feed its burgeoning population, irrigation must become less wasteful and more widespread.

The minimal number of bank failures in the middle of the decade bred widespread complacency among all financial regulators.

Such feelings are widespread at a time of high unemployment and economic malaise.

But it took another century for scientists to realize that acid rain was a widespread environmental problem.

What began as rumors at a high school has resulted in criminal charges and calls for widespread test reform.

Amid widespread change in their fields, schools and college programs cast a fresh eye on what artists will need to know from now.

But there is a chronic manifestation of hunger, too, milder but more widespread.

Widespread evidence links global warming to an array of environmental effects.

It attempts to merge a business model with creative engineering to solve the widespread problem of water shortages.

Indeed, tonsil stones appear to be a widespread affliction.

He argued that the world was in moral decline, with the widespread acceptance of gay marriage the clearest sign.

Yet school counselors and cognitive therapists see the inability to concentrate as a widespread learning problem.

But the results didn't sound good by any account, and the device lacked practicality for widespread use.

The budgetary bad news is widespread and far from over.

It was often blamed for the widespread lay-offs that became part of almost every company's radical redesign at that time.

He agrees that animal evolution through hybridization may be much more widespread than previously believed.

The world's leading candidate for a malaria vaccine has cleared another hoop on the way to widespread use.

The scam has become so widespread that victims formed their own online support group last month.

Prices of raw materials are seeing widespread gains as talk of a.

Sekercioglu says bird extinctions could have a widespread effect on the future of the planet.

Insurers don't want to cover widespread pharmacogenomic testing without lots of evidence that it's applicable.

Also, there is no evidence that this was widespread and in fact the limited occurrences suggests otherwise.

Convention organizers, it seems, chose widespread distribution online over crystal-clear clarity.

The use of background checks in academe is not only more widespread than you might think, but also on the rise.

The unrest is getting more violent and more widespread.

For decades scientists have debated which of these factors was responsible for widespread megafaunal extinctions.

Once implemented on an industrial scale, ammonia synthesis enabled the widespread fertilization of croplands for decades hence.

Monitoring of telephone calls, voicemail, e-mail and computer use by employers is easier and more widespread than ever before.

But as well intentioned as these efforts are, practical problems have prevented widespread implementation of such programs.

High concentrations of oil are acutely toxic, but low concentrations have more subtle, widespread effects.

The rankings often rile college officials but attract widespread attention in both fields.

All this makes it likely that the hangover from the binge will last longer and be more widespread than is generally expected.

Then came the biggest crisis of all: widespread drug resistance.

Here are some new directions to expect for treatment and prevention of this widespread killer.

After all, religion is one of the great sources of psychological comfort and social solidarity in times of widespread insecurity.

In the face of widespread public contempt, banks continue to dole out huge amounts of money to their high fliers.

The report suggests endocrine disruptors are now widespread in many animals and can seriously harm populations.

Quorum sensing is now known to be widespread in the bacterial world, and many researchers hope to develop ways to disrupt it.

His engineering work makes it practical to build a widespread power grid for use in lighting and machinery alike.

Today the feeling is widespread that science and commerce should not-must not-mix.

The proof of this is in the widespread awareness of the current situation.

Honey was commonly used in medicine before antibiotics became widespread.

Mobile technology is becoming widespread to serve both as sensing and monitoring platform.

Until recently, the widespread expectation was that some version of an idea called string theory would prevail.

Potential cancer treatments are loitering in the wings as clinical trials are delayed by widespread shortages of common.

There is a widespread aversion to the use of imported kimchi.

The periods are short but before the system was implemented the types of problems described in the article were widespread.

There was a widespread perception that everybody knew the rules of the election beforehand.

Many of the disorders targeted by the following treatments are becoming increasingly widespread.

One shudders to imagine the widespread minor traumatisms infilicted on such fragile brains.

But the concurrence unsettles the widespread and intuitive belief that violent crime will rise during times of economic distress.

Engelbart garnered neither widespread recognition nor royalties for his invention.

But such gripes are widespread in the media industry.

The evidence for that is widespread if you have been on the planet for a while.

It has been pegged to the dollar for a decade, and there is a widespread belief that it is unfairly cheap.

The national game inspires widespread devotion and the national team justified pride.

The belief that the changes have benefited business and political elites far more than ordinary people is widespread.

And this month fresh measures were introduced with the widespread roll-out of full-body scanners.

The second step is to halt the widespread practice of retiring long before the official pension age.

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World English Dictionary

widespread (ˈwaɪdˌsprɛd)

—*adj*
1.	extending over a wide area
2.	accepted by or occurring among many people

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