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far-stretched



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"It's far-stretched to say this is a rollback of reform," Pacheco said.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 23, 2014

While you're wondering whether this all sounds like some kind of farfetched – make that far-stretched – intellectual exercise, here comes Nicolas Jaar.

From The Guardian Mar. 31, 2011

A feeling of anxious discomfort seizes upon the wanderer, he hastens with redoubled speed through the far-stretched deserts, and eagerly ascends the mountains piled up before him, in the hope that better things lie beyond. 

From Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North by Pfeiffer, Ida

There was a bright sky and a brisk wind, but nothing could disguise the featureless monotony of the far-stretched landscape.

From The Quest of the Simple Life by Dawson, William J.

"Enough, my friend, is as good as a feast," said his rider to him, gently, yet strongly pulling up the far-stretched head, "and too much is worse than a famine."

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)




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