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Snake embryos must lengthen rapidly to produce their unusually elongated bodies, but the gut does not grow at the same rate.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

El Niño also is expected to lengthen the marine heat wave off portions of the coast, which is not yet being influenced by the climate pattern.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Funding shortfalls for research and personal circumstances can also often lengthen the study period.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

Hostess had worked, before the Smucker acquisition, to lengthen that shelf life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

The frog dove into the water, and soon its legs began to lengthen.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

“As the delay lengthens, financing costs, integration risk, transaction expenses and lost strategic flexibility become increasingly tangible,” said Barak Orbach, a law and business professor at the University of Arizona.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

The enzyme telomerase lengthens telomeres, helping protect chromosomes and preventing cells from dying.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026

The transaction lengthens a list of Latin American divestments in recent years including Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Costa Rica and Guatemala.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

As fire season lengthens and intensifies across the West, the pilots who do the grueling, sometimes deadly work of aerial firefighting are in high demand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024

Celia lengthens her stride, so I do, too, and up we go, picking up our pace instead of slowing down.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

We lengthened the school year, brought in hundreds of tutors, replaced 95% of principals and nearly half the teachers while retraining the rest, and embedded data-driven instruction and high expectations into daily practice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

A new NASA-led study now finds that although the melt season has lengthened dramatically since satellite monitoring began, its average duration has changed relatively little since about 2010.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

AI has the ability to accelerate analysis and speed up work — but paradoxically, it’s lengthened the process of finding the right person for an open role in many cases.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

But Schulte told the BBC's World at One programme that individual governments had to make the decision to suspend the system, not airports themselves, adding that queues lengthened while such decisions were being made.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

My back lengthened in my chair as I pictured myself strong like miranium.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

That includes tough rules on deficits, an independent central bank, and a pension system that indexes retirement to lengthening lifespans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The study, however, didn’t attribute the lengthening delays to flaws in the single-payer system, but rather to the increasing complexity of cancer care and changes in hospital practices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

"So they detach the slow-growing gut, which is now tethering the lengthening body. The body buckles and twists into coiling," Miyashita explains.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

Rising temperatures have added more warm, humid days to the calendar in much of the US, lengthening the season in which the disease-carrying insects thrive.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

In the dust and chaos, we hurry down the street and disappear into the afternoon’s lengthening shadows.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu