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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are widened" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a process or action where something is being made wider or expanded.
Example: "The opportunities for collaboration are widened through the new partnership."
Alternatives: "are expanded" or "are increased".
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Thanks to money made across the oceans, roads are widened, rooms added, minivans bought.
Among typical improvements are widened doorways for wheelchair access and safety features like grab bars in bathrooms.
Social divisions are widened and deepened further by the labour market, the subject of the next article.
Sensitivity is increased and linear dynamic ranges are widened when alternative electrochemical techniques (SWV and ACV) are employed.
Unfairness is increased when gaps in society become ever more entrenched, when they are widened by class, generation and geography, as is the case in modern Britain.
The first was "Professional Foul," an excellent 1977 TV play, which dealt with a soccer-loving professor of ethics whose moral horizons are widened by the false arrest of a former student.
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Against that, margins are widening.
The ever-expanding worldWAISTLINES are widening everywhere.
Divisions in rebel ranks are widening.
These behavioral gaps are widening.
Inequalities are widening, not narrowing.
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