Collocations for widespread - adj.

be
become
remain

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
remarkably
increasingly
relatively
sufficiently
geographically
a geographically widespread species

among
Illiteracy is widespread among the poor.

Widespread is used with these nouns:
abuse, acceptance, acclaim, adoption, agreement, alienation, allegation, anger, apathy, appeal, assumption, availability, belief, bloodshed, concern, condemnation, confusion, consensus, consternation, contamination, corruption, coverage, criticism, currency, cynicism, damage, destruction, devastation, disagreement, disapproval, disbelief, discontent, discrimination, disillusionment, dismay, disorder, disruption, dissatisfaction, distribution, distrust, enthusiasm, evidence, expectation, extinction, famine, fear, feeling, hostility, ignorance, illiteracy, implementation, impression, interest, introduction, irregularity, misconception, mistrust, misunderstanding, myth, network, occurrence, opposition, outrage, panic, participation, perception, pessimism, phenomenon, popularity, poverty, practice, praise, protest, publicity, recognition, repercussion, resistance, revolt, revulsion, rumour, scepticism, speculation, starvation, suffering, support, suspicion, sympathy, unemployment, unhappiness, unrest, usage, use, vaccination, violation, violence