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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

broadly

/ˈbɹɔdli/

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What does broadly mean?

adverb

  1. Widely and openly.
  2. Broadly speaking; in a wide manner; liberally; in a loose sense.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈbɹɔdli/

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Waldemar Fitzurse was rather offended than pleased at the Prince stating thus broadly an opinion, that his daughter had been slighted.
Walter ScottIvanhoe: A RomanceProject Gutenberg ebook #82
Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other.
Robert Louis StevensonThe strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeProject Gutenberg ebook #42
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The position is simply that there is, broadly speaking, the endeavour to eliminate an element which is essential to successful dramatic presentation.
Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) JappRobert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a MemorialProject Gutenberg ebook #590
There was a most impressive array of pageantry, of processions, a sort of grand ritual, with their arts and their religion broadly blended.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanHerlandProject Gutenberg ebook #32
Democratic society is peculiarly dependent for its maintenance upon the use in forming a course of study of criteria which are broadly human.
John DeweyDemocracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of EducationProject Gutenberg ebook #852