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153 examples of Widened in a sentence

The gap has widened since I left.
In addition, we've changed our definition over time, so in fact we've widened the definition of autism, and that accounts for some of the increased prevalence that we see.
And you can listen to her as well, if this is a way that you're interested in having your web widened.
my vocabulary has widened from watching Gilmore Girls.
She signifies all emotions with a furrowed brow and widened eyes a'la Bambi, and her voice is thin and grating.
Well, since Tarantino's remake is in the air, the accessibility of this film has widened a bit, and I managed to catch a midnight showing.
The world is a very unequal place, and inequality within societies has widened considerably in recent decades.
Indeed, the overall gap has widened in Jordan and Tunisia.
Indeed, as eurozone members’ inability to print their own money effectively relegated them to the status of less-developed countries that must borrow in a foreign currency, risk premiums widened accordingly.
Indeed, the US effort merely widened the divide on security issues within Pakistani– a situation that serves no one’s interests.
Third, successive governments widened the ethnic divide through catastrophically predatory governance.
Subsequent reforms expanded and widened the land-owning class, fostering an agricultural revival and making Japanese democracy more stable.
During Europe's Cold War division, that gap widened considerably.
Indeed, while China’s living standards have risen dramatically over the past 30 years, the gap between rich and poor has widened sharply.
Moreover, the gap between growth in services and growth in manufacturing and construction widened over the first two quarters of 2013, following annual gains of 8.1% in both sectors in 2012.
The election, the fraud, and the violent crackdown on the subsequent protests revealed, and clearly widened, deep rifts inside the regime.
In the US, income inequality has steadily widened under both Democratic and Republican administrations.
Most American women are having a hard enough time on the factory floor or the unemployment line or making minimum wage at Wal-Mart; when working-class women hear a former corporate attorney carry on about a glass ceiling, they think not about gender identification but about the class divide that has widened since the term came into vogue in the 1980s.
In Tunisia, too, the budget deficit has widened sharply in the wake of the revolution, rising from 2.6% of GDP in 2010 to 6% in 2011.
In 2000-2007, the gap widened, to 3.5 percentage points.
The Re-Division of EuropeATHENS – As the eurozone debt crisis has steadily widened the divide between Europe’s stronger northern economies and the weaker, more debt-laden economies in the south (with France a kind of no man’s land economy in between), one question is on everyone’s mind: Can Europe’s monetary union – indeed, the European Union itself – survive?
The numbers bear this out: since 2000, when national saving fell well below trend, the current-account deficit has widened to an average of 3.8% of GDP – nearly four times the 1% gap from 1970 to 1999.
In light of widened regional and political cleavages, confrontations such as occurred in the holy mosque of the Prophet could increase in frequency, size, and violence.
“Shareholder value” has gained force; access to an organised stock exchange has widened.
The range of currencies included in the SDRs would have to be widened, and some of the newly added currencies, including the renminbi, may not be fully convertible.
As the gap between the haves and the have-nots has widened, resentment of the chaebols has become widespread.
But the gap between the rich and poor widened, and at least in the US, the incomes of the poor and the middle class stagnated.ampnbsp;
But, in assessing the benefits achieved by economic growth, it is a mistake to focus on whether the income gap between rich and poor widened or narrowed.
If, at the same time, the income of a person earning a million dollars increased by $100,000, the income gap will have widened.
Despite rhetoric about “inclusive growth,” India’s wealth gap has widened during the years of exceptionally rapid economic expansion.
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