Definition of Widespread

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Definition of Widespread
	Widespread Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement. Related Definitions: And, As, Distance, Extended, Extending, Far, Great, Movement, Spread, To, Wide, Widely, Widespread

Widespread Quotations

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.
Norman Borlaug

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
Frank Herbert

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
J. G. Ballard

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.
Joe Baca

The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
Jessica Savitch

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
Kevin Kelly

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'
John Sayles

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.
Herman Kahn

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.
Joseph Rotblat

The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.
Ellsworth Huntington

Widespread Translations

widespread in German is weitverbreitet
widespread in Italian is molto diffuso
widespread in Swedish is utbredd

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