sweeping
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Something that's sweeping is wide-ranging or thorough. A political candidate might campaign on promises to bring sweeping change to a country.
Sweeping things can be extensive, like the sweeping powers a president has in a dictatorship, or curving, like the sweeping motion a dancer makes with his arm. Sweeping can also mean "overly broad," so if you make a sweeping generalization, you take a general idea or rule and apply it too widely, without allowing any exceptions to it.
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taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination
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broad in scope or contentsynonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide
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ignoring distinctions
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the act of cleaning with a broom
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Vocabulary lists containing sweeping
Middle schooler Ben Ripley trains to be a junior agent at a top-secret spy school.
Bell and his family are colonists on Mars. When a mysterious illness strikes the adults in the colony, Bell and the other children must try to find a cure.