Broadening in a sentence as a noun

I see this as something which reflects HN's broadening base.

Has the internet delivered in broadening the middle class?

Consider reconnecting with old friends or broadening your social circle.

The announcement is that they're broadening that to include a fair amount of legal material as well.

That's a broadening experience and an intellectual delight.

My 1st thought was that the difference here is that Apple were broadening their focus, the other two examples were pinning all their hopes on a single product.

I would suggest broadening your product to include the soon-to-be emerging high relativistic speed and FTL travel sectors.

The national Republican Party is outspoken about raising taxes on lower income people, in "broadening the base".

>"It also appears that the already massive source code leak at Adobe is broadening to include the company’s Photoshop family of graphical design products.

Everything except how best to use my time when I occasionally want to waste it broadening my horizon with unusual and interesting information.

And achieving that is much, much more difficult through violence: justice is achieved by broadening civil society and strengthening its institutions, and violence always does harm to those.

And according to the people that use them, some ***** have admittedly great benefits, ranging from spiritual enlightenment to making music sound better and food taste better to simply broadening one's perspective.

As the performance gap b/w platforms decreases, we may see more rich experiences for a web audience that's interacting in realtime with native or console users, broadening what's possible for everyone.

They are supposed to take things that would otherwise remain secret and get inventors to disclose this secret know-how so that it can be absorbed into an ever-broadening public pool of knowledge for society's benefit and, as a trade-off, give the inventor a limited monopoly barring all others from using the invention for a limited time even if those others developed it entirely independently of the efforts of the inventor.

Broadening definitions

noun

the act of making something wider

See also: widening

noun

the action of making broader; "the broadening of travel"

noun

an increase in width

See also: widening