sweeping
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4.8
- adjective
- /ˈswipɪŋ/
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amplio
- Efforts at the college level have been far less sweeping and more tenuous.
- sweeping changes
- sweeping reforms
- sweeping injunctions
You can see I'm prone to sweeping generalizations.
- You can see I'm prone to sweeping generalizations.
- Are we going too far when we draw fairly sweeping conclusions based on that?
- So they know how to do a sweeping denial and they're not doing it.
- When they make that change and that decision, those become sweeping regional and national trends.
- He's not making such a sweeping assertion, right?
- And he, you know, that's a very sweeping statement.
- Let me close with some sweeping comments which are really provocations for conversation.
- But the question remains, is growing concern about Tech Prime to unleash a wave of sweeping and significant reform?
- But the more we learn about aging, the clearer it becomes that a sweeping downward course is grossly inaccurate.
- This is this is this is a direct quote and this is a, a, a broad sweeping statement that's rare for a scientist to make.
- He's not there to to kind of make sweeping changes to and ban a media company.
- I see way too often people kind of making a a broad sweeping statement that certain varieties are good for spring planting.
- I, I just think that we needed a, a vision, a sweeping change and to, to speak to the anger and frustration of, of working people.
- The soulmate people believe a narrative of a one and only of sweeping romantic love story.
Examples
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Most educators are aware of the fact that Public Law 94-142 prompted sweeping changes in American education.
Academic text (1991) -
Are we going too far when we draw fairly sweeping conclusions based on that?
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The two types of studies taken together have helped create sweeping changes.
Academic text (2011) -
When they make that change and that decision, those become sweeping regional and national trends.
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A sweeping federal challenge that could yield nothing less than a grand new era of social reform.
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Land reform, though not as sweeping as promised, brought some benefit to the fellahin.
Academic text (1999) -
But they have been overtaken in key respects by the sweeping changes of the past generation.
Academic text (2011) -
One man's accusations have not had such a sweeping impact on public perceptions since the McCarthy era.
Academic text (2012) -
Likewise, Box, a Dropbox competitor, had to make sweeping changes before approaching the enterprise.
Blog text (1) -
The new law introduced sweeping regulations that affect various industries across the country.
Synonyms
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3.9
On a large scale that affects many people or things
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4.1
Covering many different subjects or areas
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5.9
Including all parts of something
Including many different people, ideas, or things
Antonyms
How Broad
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sweeping as an adjective comes from sweep, which meant 'to move across a wide area', like a big arm gesture or wind that sweeps through a room. That's why a sweeping change or gesture means it covers many things or a large area.