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But in the last several years, the office widened its search for potential hires, reaching outside the state for the first time in its history.
The bizarre lesbian expression fuckerware party gathering for the group use of sex toys seems, contrary to expectations, to be real; the definition of fist-fuck, originally limited to anal fisting, has been widened (with citations) to allow for vaginal fisting as well.
creative `adjective, euphemistic going beyond conventional scope or legal limits .. This new meaning of creative, with its implication of imaginative rule-bending for possibly disreputable purposes, appears to have been coined in the field of accountancy .. , but has since widened its area of application considerably.
While aid money has favoured urban development and centralized power, the rural–urban gap has widened over the years.
Stage envy is a well-trod Anglophilic path, which has in the last few years widened into a mostly one-way superhighway stretching from London's West End to the New York Theater District.