wide open to something
wide
adverb[ -er/-est only ]
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wideadverb[-er/-est only] (COMPLETELY)

to the greatest degree possible; completely:
I was wide awake.
The dentist said, "Open wide."

Examples of wide

wide
A wider application of this line of research can provide insights into how representation varies across political systems, however.
What about the economic base for choosing support from wider family?
As the filters become more low pass, lateral inhibition becomes wider.
A wider public interest was now brought to bear upon what had essentially been the responsibility of private relations between employers and their employees.
Other independent studies have found similar results, though looking at wider indicators of campaign intensity than just campaign spending.
The physical size of the sucker results in a broadening of the worm at this point and is generally the widest aspect of the worm.
Judging the wider reception of such works, as well as those of more commercially orientated titles is very difficult.
Against this background, the research focus was broadened to include wider political processes.
Likewise, discourse diversity enables speakers to have a wider and more detailed range of possible meanings and functions at their disposal.
We found that the ascending aorta is wider than the thoracic aorta in both normal hearts and hearts with a perimembranous ventricular septal defect.
Generalization to other patient groups should be studied, especially in a more diverse patient population with a wider distribution of expected utilities.
If we allow for other sources than current profits from other services of the firm, the framework will have a wider application.
In these decades nonconformists were learning to speak not only to their own constituency but also to a wider public.
Obviously, a patrimonial king or emperor enjoys much wider decisionlatitude than a king presiding over his vassals.
In other words, intellectuals began to focus more narrowly on problems related to their subject of study and less on wider political issues.
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