How to Use across-the-board in a Sentence

across-the-board

adjective
  • Few projects got as much across-the-board love as theirs.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • None had the across-the-board significance of Ohtani’s.
    — Jack Magruder, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The across-the-board tariff will be added to a set of duties on about 60 countries that levy U.S. goods.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The union achieved many of its goals, including across-the-board pay raises.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
  • An across-the-board sale on stocks isn’t the only thing a recession offers you.
    — Chris Carosa, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The downside is that the AI won’t be able to respond well to across-the-board prompts and could be seen as weaker than the larger-sized AI.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • There is little debate that across-the-board tariffs would raise prices.
    — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
  • The bill would set an across-the-board maximum annual 36% rate.
    — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But Trump's across-the-board tariff schedule and high rates suggest a harder line this time around.
    — Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Woodford had given a $1 per hour, across-the-board wage increase earlier in the year.
    — Bruce Schreiner, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Policies vary from restaurant to restaurant, so there's no across-the-board answer.
    — Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Live television viewership has declined across-the-board over the past few years, with pro football one of the few events to buck the trend.
    — Mark Kennedy, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Under the terms of the debt ceiling law, that could trigger a 1% across-the-board cut to defense and nondefense funding.
    — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Trump has floated a 10% across-the-board tariff on all U.S. imports, as well as a 60% tax on products from China.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 19 July 2024
  • Not to mention that on-court chemistry with Jokic isn’t an across-the-board guarantee.
    — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Do nothing and see a 23% across-the-board cut in retirement benefits?
    — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2024
  • But the across-the-board tariffs reduce the appeal of that approach, and rerouting supply chains takes time and involves higher costs.
    — Neil Irwin, Axios, 9 July 2024
  • But he’s also called for across-the-board tariffs, something that many economists say will be passed on to consumers.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The clock speed bumps provide a small across-the-board performance uplift, and the impact of the extra RAM becomes apparent in a few of our tests.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The statistics, certainly, paint an almost across-the-board picture of a business in good health.
    — Mark Sutherland, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Peep a few of the best sparkling water brands, below: And though sparkling water may seem like an across-the-board healthy option, not all brands are created equal.
    — Sarah Felbin, womenshealthmag.com, 26 May 2023
  • In past budget crises, Petek wrote, the state made across-the-board cuts to per-pupil allocations (the amount the state spends per student) and deferred payments.
    — Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024
  • But Davis said across-the-board cuts don’t necessarily provide relief to those most in need.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Harris has focused on bringing down costs of specific items or sectors rather than across-the-board prices.
    — Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Sep. 2024
  • But the proposal would also prevent schools from enacting across-the-board bans.
    — Ava Sasani, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • However, an across-the-board tariff on Chinese goods did take effect.
    — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Still, he’s been across-the-board worse in Year 2, particularly as a playmaker.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • But that will be hard to do when Mr. Trump is threatening across-the-board 10% to 20% tariffs on all imports, including those from Europe.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
  • That is until Trump slapped 25% across-the-board tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Quit trying to pick winners and losers and start advocating for across-the-board increases.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2023

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