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broad + -ly

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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Positive
broadly

Comparative
more broadly

Superlative
most broadly

  1. You use broadly to suggest that something is true in many but not all cases.
    Broadly speaking, there's a lot of support.
    It's playing a greater role in the universities and in society broadly.
  2. If you do something broadly, you do so over a wide area.
    When the books arrived in the village, they were shared broadly.
    She smiled broadly at the kind words.
    I define the Middle East broadly here to also include Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
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