Stockholders’ (Deficit) Equity - Summarizes the Company's Pre-tax Share-based Incentive Compensation Expense and Income Tax Benefit (Detail) - USD ($)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021	Dec. 31, 2020
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award [Line Items]
Total share-based incentive compensation expense	$ 52,300,000	$ 45,800,000	$ 42,300,000
Associated tax benefits recognized	8,000,000.0	7,500,000	7,100,000
Other long-term share-based incentive compensation programs
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award [Line Items]
Total share-based incentive compensation expense	33,600,000	32,000,000.0	29,200,000
2022 Three-year PSU Awards
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award [Line Items]
Total share-based incentive compensation expense	4,800,000	0	0
2021 Three-year PSU Awards
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award [Line Items]
Total share-based incentive compensation expense	7,100,000	4,200,000	0
2020 Three-year PSU Awards
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award [Line Items]
Total share-based incentive compensation expense	5,100,000	4,500,000	5,300,000
2019 Three-year PSU Awards
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award [Line Items]
Total share-based incentive compensation expense	0	2,200,000	3,500,000
2018 Three-year PSU Awards
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award [Line Items]
Total share-based incentive compensation expense	0	0	1,900,000
2017 COO and Chief Executive Officer-Designate New Hire Equity Awards
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award [Line Items]
Total share-based incentive compensation expense	0	100,000	200,000
SLO Awards
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award [Line Items]
Total share-based incentive compensation expense	1,700,000	2,800,000	2,200,000
Other PSU Awards \| Other long-term share-based incentive compensation programs
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award [Line Items]
Total share-based incentive compensation expense	$ 100,000	$ 0	$ 0

Amount of expense for award under share-based payment arrangement. Excludes amount capitalized.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (h)(1)(i)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=128089324&loc=d3e5070-113901

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