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BROADLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without regard to specific details or exceptions

Example:

he interprets the law broadly

Synonyms:

broadly; broadly speaking; generally; loosely

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

narrowly (in a narrow manner; not allowing for exceptions)

Pertainym:

broad (not detailed or specific)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a wide fashion

Example:

he smiled broadly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

broad (having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other)

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 Context examples: 

It is broadly classified as a personality change due to a general medical condition.

(Organic Personality Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

In previous work, they isolated broadly neutralizing antibodies from people and produced them in the lab.

(HIV Immunotherapy Promising in First Human Study, NIH)

However, because of the small sample size and limited scope of the study, it's not clear whether these findings will apply more broadly to people other than overweight men.

(Exercise before Breakfast Burns More Fat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers suggest that these broadly neutralizing antibodies could provide the basis for a candidate treatment, but further exploration is needed.

(Antibodies from Ebola survivor protect mice and ferrets against related viruses, NIH)

Smoke’s mates were now smiling broadly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Broadly, it claims that the chemicals are 'safe' and that people are exposed to such low doses of them that they're not considered toxic.

(Humans exposed to far more hormone-disrupting chemicals than thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers conclude that these broadly neutralizing antibodies are promising candidates for further development as therapeutic molecules against several ebolavirus species.

(Broadly acting antibodies found in plasma of Ebola survivors, National Institutes of Health)

Broadly speaking, executive function refers to a set of processes that enable planning, problem solving, flexible reasoning and regulation of behaviours and emotions.

(Childhood obesity linked to structural differences in key brain regions, University of Cambridge)

There is—I repeat it—a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Exactly why the bright methane ice settles on these crater rims and walls is a mystery; also puzzling is why this same effect doesn’t occur broadly across Pluto.

(Pluto’s ‘Halo’ Craters, NASA)