Tom Hanks

There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.

American Actor

Rachel Morrison

Your movie becomes much more narrow-minded when you have like-minded department heads. Whereas if you can surround yourself with people who have been a mother before, been a grandmother before, you get a much broader and wide-reaching swath of human emotions.

American Director

Sloane Crosley

I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.

American Writer

Marc Andreessen

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.

American Businessman

Kurt Browning

Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.

Canadian Athlete

Talulah Riley

Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for.

English Actress

Laeta Kalogridis

It was very, very important to me to represent a broader swath of humanity that often isn't seen in futuristic sci-fi.

American Producer

Vermin Supreme

Quite frankly, my constituency crosses a very wide swath of the political spectrum.

American Artist

Agnes Gund

I get income, but I don't have a big swath of money to invest in things.

American Public Servant

Constance Baker Motley

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

American Activist

Swathe as a noun often evokes strong visual images of expanses.

Visual Imagery

It's frequently used to describe large continuous areas, not smaller patches.

Physical Spaces

Swathe can be used metaphorically to represent any broad, extensive range.

Figurative Usage

As a verb, swathe implies covering something carefully, often for protection.

Protective Action

Swathing can suggest an act of caretaking, providing comfort or security.

Care and Comfort

As a noun, swathe often signifies a broad impact or change when used figuratively.

Sweeping Change

Swathe can indicate the extensive reach or influence of something.

Extent of Impact

 if you're comparing to grid-supplied electricity. But if you don't have grid-supplied electricity, then the question of payback is a different one entirely. It's just how many watts do you get per dollar, and how could you benefit from that to change your life in some way. This is the map of the whole Earth, and you can see a huge swathe in the middle where a large part of the population is,

Bill Gross: Great ideas...

 So that's what I want to talk about for game dynamics, because construction has just begun, and the more consciously we can think about this, the better we'll be able to use it for anything we want. So like I said, the way you go through and build on the game layer is not with glass and steel and cement. And the resources we use are not this two-dimensional swath of land

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 though there may still be gaps in our understanding. Scientists also like when a new theory successfully predicts previously unobserved phenomena, like when Dmitri Mendeleev's theory about the periodic table predicted several undiscovered elements. The term scientific theory covers a broad swath.

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 And it was epic, but, like, starter-kit epic. We moved on to a large swath of sky with a tear down the middle, and through the tear, you could see deep parts of the cosmos. Getting closer. We evolved to standing on top of an obelisk, standing on top of a mountainside, standing on top of boxes.

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 oviduct first it swathes with albumen the egg white that contains the water needed by the growing chick that done and enclosed within the membrane it travels on into the uterus when it will be given its protective

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 Soon, the locusts take on a striking pattern that warns predators of their newly poisonous nature. Smaller groups merge into bands of millions, which mow down virtually all plant life in a kilometer-wide swath.

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 with trash for every foot of coastline in the world across our ocean plastic trash flows into circulation dispersed almost everywhere but concentrating in huge swathes in the midst of global

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 But it's important to remember that before we learned how to share the fruits of the Industrial Revolution with the broad swathes of society, we had to go through two depressions,

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 Conventional farming methods cleared large swathes of land and planted them with a single crop, eradicating wildlife and emitting huge amounts of greenhouse gases in the process.

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 Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. It can be found in swathes of city pavements,