How to Use widely distributed in a Sentence

widely distributed

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  • The Eurasian eagle owl, for instance, is one of the largest and most widely distributed owls in the world.
    Emily Harwitz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • The footage was widely distributed, and the news blackout was broken.
    Matt Viser and Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Can love—of people, of books—be this widely distributed and intense?
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • First, walleyes are widely distributed across the country, and where they’re found, they’re often found in very good numbers.
    M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 20 June 2024
  • In newborns, heat rash looks like very thin blisters or water drops widely distributed on the face, trunk, arms, and legs.
    Matthew Sloan, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Musk is known for writing emails to employees that are then widely distributed over the Internet.
    Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
  • At the same time, the game is also widely distributed in the Apple store, so players using Apple computers can enjoy them freely.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • How to Catch Channel Catfish Like bullheads, channel cats are widely distributed across the country.
    Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The footage of Amell’s appearance at the convention was widely distributed on social media.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 31 July 2023
  • The laptop's contents were widely distributed after Biden failed to retrieve it from a computer repair shop.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
  • Cats, on the other hand, appear to have receptors more widely distributed, with infected cats showing viral invasion of the lungs, hearts, eyes, and brains.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 May 2024
  • The talk was canceled, but not before the hackers’ slides were widely distributed to conference attendees and published online.
    WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Uniquely handsome, challenging on the wing, widely distributed, and excellent on the table, the canvasback is the paragon of diving ducks, just as the mallard symbolizes the dabblers.
    M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 8 Nov. 2023
  • But new, early-stage research points toward what could be a path for a universal antivenom, one that could be more easily produced and widely distributed than the old-fashioned ones.
    Damian Garde, STAT, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Some of that is an exposure problem—as mentioned earlier, good voice control systems are not widely distributed yet.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The email communications were widely distributed at Fox News.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Yet relatively few of Nollywood's films are widely distributed throughout the world.
    Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Movies once saturated the culture, especially when the Oscars were bestowed long after films were widely distributed and deep into the following year’s spring.
    Armond White, National Review, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The cases are widely distributed throughout the country, with 20 of the country's 24 governmental regions (departments) reporting at least one case.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 26 July 2023
  • But their latest technologies have been reproduced and widely distributed.
    Cade Metz, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2022
  • But the species in these new cases is P. vivax, which is more widely distributed geographically, but less frequently lethal, than the dominant form P. falciparum.
    Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 3 July 2023
  • Peregrine falcons appear to be widely distributed over the globe and find urban areas congenial, but few in recent memory seem to have taken advantage of the housing opportunities so close to the White House.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Peregrine falcons appear to be widely distributed over the globe and find urban areas congenial, but few in recent memory seem to have taken advantage of the housing opportunities so close to the White House.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • A number of authors have emphasized the need for more local (and thus widely distributed) economic activity to revitalize the United States.
    Raghuram G. Rajan, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Our gray matter performs a bewildering mashup of overlapping functions, some widely distributed across the brain, others more localized.
    George Musser, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Their analysis showed that Ancestral Puebloans constructed with ponderosa pine and Douglas fir, mountain species that were widely distributed and accessible.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Their analysis showed that Ancestral Puebloans constructed with ponderosa pine and Douglas fir, mountain species that were widely distributed and accessible.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Quercetin is widely distributed in fruits, vegetables, and grains and is known for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
    Rebecca Jaspan, Mph, Rd, Cdn, Cdces, Health, 26 May 2023
  • On social media, Shapiro’s report was largely met with fascination and Christie’s with recriminations; both were widely distributed and discussed.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 2 May 2024
  • Those policies are: — An Emergency Action Plan for each high school athletic venue that are widely distributed, posted, rehearsed, and updated annually.
    Rob Maaddi, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2024

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