Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a broad manner.
- Specifically In zoology, so as to extend over a relatively large space: as, broadly emarginate; broadly bisinuate, etc. A part is broadly truncate when the truncation is nearly or quite equal to its greatest width.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a broad manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a wide manner,
liberally , in a loose sense.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb without regard to specific details or exceptions
- adverb in a wide fashion
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Examples
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"Artists are really more interesting than other people, including bankers," Tompkins said, using the term broadly and, refreshingly for these times, not at all pejoratively.
unknown title 2011
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If you are a skeptic - and I use the term broadly such that I ensnare the reader against his will - take a moment to hear me out.
Barrett Brown: A Proposal for a Minor Revolution in Human Affairs 2010
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Schuster completely neglected his responsibility as a journalist (I'm using the term broadly here.)
Breaking: Hillary Campaign Goes To War With MSNBC Over Chelsea "Pimp" Comment 2009
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Schuster was using the term broadly and you know it.
Breaking: Hillary Campaign Goes To War With MSNBC Over Chelsea "Pimp" Comment 2009
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If you define the term broadly, everyone is a racist.
"When Mexicans come north as illegal immigrants, we call them wetbacks." Ann Althouse 2007
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They tend to have a rather vague definition of what constitutes fundamentalism, applying the label broadly to any religious person they perceive as too extreme.
Archive 2007-09-01 Kylopod 2007
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They tend to have a rather vague definition of what constitutes fundamentalism, applying the label broadly to any religious person they perceive as too extreme.
Fundies are not all created equal Kylopod 2007
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In his 1985 series, he applied the label broadly, including some historians whose sole qualification (or offense) was having written a negative review of his protégé Harvey Klehr's history of Communism in the 1930s.
The Old Left: An Exchange Isserman, Maurice 1994
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It is an obviously true, and therefore a trite observation, that no one, woman or man, should consider that education (using the term broadly) stopped with graduation from school or college.
Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife Marion Mills Miller 1906
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This is the fragile relationship I share with music and up until recently I feel like my ears have been getting slashed to pieces on the reef when it comes to rock music (I use the term broadly).
whiteboydancefloor 2010
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