by a wide margin
By a landslide
By a wide margin means by a large amount or substantial difference.
The phrase typically describes victories, leads, or comparisons where the gap is significant: She won the election by a wide margin.
It emphasizes that the difference wasn't close—not a narrow squeak but a decisive spread.
- conclusivelyIn a final, undeniable manner
- far and awayBy a wide margin
- overwhelminglyTo an overpowering degree
- decisivelyWith firm determination
- head and shouldersDistinctly better than others
resoundingly · definitive · handsomely · clean sweep · rout · blowout · hands down · run away with · out of sight · by a long shot · vastly · greatly · landslide · no contest · not even close · trounce · commandingly · unquestionably
margin of victory/difference
by a wide marginby a hair
barely · by a whisker · narrowly · by a nose · just barely
certainty/decisiveness of outcome
by a wide marginin a dead heat
wide, margin, widely, widen, wideness, wider, widest, marginal, marginally