How to Use across-the-board in a Sentence

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• Few projects got as much across-the-board love as theirs.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
• None had the across-the-board significance of Ohtani’s.
  — Jack Magruder, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• The union achieved many of its goals, including across-the-board pay raises.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
• The downside is that the AI won’t be able to respond well to across-the-board prompts and could be seen as weaker than the larger-sized AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
• There is little debate that across-the-board tariffs would raise prices.
  — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
• The bill would set an across-the-board maximum annual 36% rate.
  — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
• Woodford had given a $1 per hour, across-the-board wage increase earlier in the year.
  — Bruce Schreiner, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
• Policies vary from restaurant to restaurant, so there's no across-the-board answer.
  — Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2025
• Live television viewership has declined across-the-board over the past few years, with pro football one of the few events to buck the trend.
  — Mark Kennedy, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
• Under the terms of the debt ceiling law, that could trigger a 1% across-the-board cut to defense and nondefense funding.
  — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 29 Nov. 2023
• Trump has floated a 10% across-the-board tariff on all U.S. imports, as well as a 60% tax on products from China.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 19 July 2024
• Do nothing and see a 23% across-the-board cut in retirement benefits?
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2024
• But the across-the-board tariffs reduce the appeal of that approach, and rerouting supply chains takes time and involves higher costs.
  — Neil Irwin, Axios, 9 July 2024
• But he’s also called for across-the-board tariffs, something that many economists say will be passed on to consumers.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
• The clock speed bumps provide a small across-the-board performance uplift, and the impact of the extra RAM becomes apparent in a few of our tests.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
• The statistics, certainly, paint an almost across-the-board picture of a business in good health.
  — Mark Sutherland, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
• Peep a few of the best sparkling water brands, below: And though sparkling water may seem like an across-the-board healthy option, not all brands are created equal.
  — Sarah Felbin, womenshealthmag.com, 26 May 2023
• In past budget crises, Petek wrote, the state made across-the-board cuts to per-pupil allocations (the amount the state spends per student) and deferred payments.
  — Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024
• But Davis said across-the-board cuts don’t necessarily provide relief to those most in need.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
• Harris has focused on bringing down costs of specific items or sectors rather than across-the-board prices.
  — Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Sep. 2024
• But the proposal would also prevent schools from enacting across-the-board bans.
  — Ava Sasani, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• Still, he’s been across-the-board worse in Year 2, particularly as a playmaker.
  — Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
• But that will be hard to do when Mr. Trump is threatening across-the-board 10% to 20% tariffs on all imports, including those from Europe.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
• Quit trying to pick winners and losers and start advocating for across-the-board increases.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2023
• Trump is already talking about across-the-board tariffs on imports if he is reelected.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Local 99 has reached an impasse with the district in months-long negotiations for an across-the-board 30% raise and more for the lowest earners.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• The Pacific Island nations are hardly across-the-board sports powers.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Bruins junior guard Lazar Stefanovic added 11 points, four rebounds and four steals in another strong across-the-board showing.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• If implemented, these would be the first across-the-board increases to Connecticut’s Medicaid reimbursement rates in nearly two decades.
  — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 29 Jan. 2025
• Goldman Sachs economists have estimated that across-the-board tariffs on Canada and Mexico would imply a 0.7% increase in core inflation and a 0.4% hit to gross domestic product.
  — Suzanne McGee and Isla Binnie, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 18 Feb 2025