Is there a major difference between “wider” and “gegen”? Could you also use “gegen” here too?
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They are indeed listed as synonyms on dict.cc, so I suspect you can use them more or less interchangeably, like “contrary to” and “against” in English. But now I await the native speakers on this forum who will come along to tell me there is in fact some subtle nuance of difference between the two 
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No subtleties here 
! No difference that I can see. Maybe “wider” is a bit more old fashioned.
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