The widespread use of solar panels in the region has significantly reduced dependence on fossil fuels over the past decade.
该地区太阳能板的广泛使用在过去十年显著减少了对化石燃料的依赖。
Historian Thomas Reyes agrees that the printing press mattered but argues that widespread literacy programs, which predated the press by decades in some regions, were an equally necessary precondition, since a printed pamphlet is useless to someone who cannot read it.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
Security researcher Marcus Webb notes that widespread public access to source code also means that malicious actors can study it just as easily as defenders can, and that the security benefit Brooks describes depends heavily on whether enough qualified people actually take the time to review the code.
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Contrary to the popular image of medieval Europe as uniformly illiterate, recent research into surviving merchant ledgers and personal letters suggests that basic literacy was more widespread among urban tradespeople than previously believed, even if formal, Latin-based scholarly literacy remained rare.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
Which choice best defines “widespread”?
B — Found or distributed over a large area. “widespread” means found or distributed over a large area.
Which word means “found or distributed over a large area”?
D — widespread. “widespread” means found or distributed over a large area.
widespread — found or distributed over a large area. In Chinese: 广泛的.
widespread is pronounced /ˈwaɪdˌsprɛd/.
The widespread use of solar panels in the region has significantly reduced dependence on fossil fuels over the past decade. (该地区太阳能板的广泛使用在过去十年显著减少了对化石燃料的依赖。)
prevalent, extensive, common — all close in meaning to widespread (found or distributed over a large area).
limited, rare — each the opposite of widespread (found or distributed over a large area).
Yes. widespread is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.