BROADENED Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

broadened

verb

past tense of broaden

as in widened

to increase the width, breadth, or scope of They decided to broaden the road by adding an additional lane. You'll find if you broaden your horizons that there are many right paths to choose.

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Recent Examples of broadened In recent years, however, a younger generation of entrepreneurs has broadened the scope, fusing Arabic culture and social media culture in fun, modern ways. — Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 30 Aug. 2026 The willingness to spend on Nvidia's products has broadened beyond the hyperscalers . — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026 The administration has broadened its Treasury sanctions on the Islamic regime while also increasing pressure on Iran’s business partners. — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2026 The Roundtable’s broader claim is that the tax is a Trojan horse — depicted literally in the ad —that could be broadened to apply to lower-earning Californians. — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026 The couple began buying works by blue-chip artists such as Damien Hirst and Takashi Murakami, but their interests have since broadened. — Payal Uttam, ARTnews.com, 26 Aug. 2026 Most states went along, and Idaho further broadened its exemption in 1976 to not only keep faith healers from going to jail if their children died, but also to keep their children from being placed in foster care solely for lack of medical care. — Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 26 Aug. 2026 That has broadened Walmart’s customer base and the retailer has begun capturing a larger share of wealthier Americans. — Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026 Over time, the reasons for keeping the security regime in place has broadened from the need to forestall political violence into a generalized desire for tranquility. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 19 Aug. 2026

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The bank has also widened its high-end options, introducing programs like its Alternative Investments Expanded Access Program to give wealth clients specialized access to private equity funds and emerging managers.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 27 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, as cars replaced horses, streets had to be widened, and several of the city’s many inconvenient hills were flattened—some houses were demolished, but plenty were simply rolled out of the way.

— Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026

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Chinese manufacturers have expanded from areas including etching and deposition into ion implantation, inspection and metrology, according to Goldman.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
His father, Charles, had expanded the New Jersey real estate development business his grandfather, a Polish Holocaust survivor, had begun after starting out as a construction laborer.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026

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