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He said continuing treatment would only protract his death.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2022

Last week, Mr Justice Hayden ruled that continued treatment was "futile" and that it "serves only to protract his death, whilst being unable to prolong his life".

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2022

Associated Newspapers "have a right to this trial, and I think that that is just going to protract the pain for Meghan Markle," Stephens said.

From Fox News ● Dec. 2, 2021

“Trying to fight that is so difficult,” she said, in part because the sovereign citizens often purposely protract litigation to stall efforts to remove them.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2021

I brushed the lever lightly, listening as the hydraulic cylinders hissed softly to protract.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

The episodic nature of the work protracts the ending.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

“If the conflict protracts, the Ukrainians have more leverage to be able to negotiate,” Watling said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

What distinguishes this pandemic as a traumatic experience, she said, is that no one knows when it will end, which protracts anxiety.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2020

Matthew Warchus's revival protracts the overall experience to three hours... at least a small part of this excess is attributable to the meal Spall makes of his lines.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2016

Were Providence to suspend or change the law which protracts the grumbler’s existence beyond the length of better men, I am sure no one would complain of it except the grumbler himself.

From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate

In China, higher crude prices -- combined with "protracted uncertainty and structural headwinds" -- led the IMF to slightly downgrade its July projection for the country's annual growth to 4.5 percent.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Crude gained 9.4% for the week, however, as traders prepared for a protracted disruption of Middle East oil flows due to an escalating conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

“Could the equity market move into a more protracted downturn if CPI is well out of consensus tomorrow?” said Mark Hackett, chief market strategist for Nationwide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

“With inflation above target for a protracted period, there is a risk of broader price pressures taking hold,” Fed governor Michael Barr said last week.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

Business now began: the day’s Collect was repeated, then certain texts of Scripture were said, and to these succeeded a protracted reading of chapters in the Bible, which lasted an hour.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

It’s good that the bar at Itsumono is a fine hangout, because as the place fills up you will hang out, with waits between drinks protracting even with two barkeeps at work.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

Still he sat smoking and protracting his coffee, and haughtily playing that he was not starving for companionship.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes

Protrac′tion, act of protracting or prolonging: the delaying of the termination of a thing: the plotting or laying down of the dimensions of anything on paper.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

"I foresee little benefit to either of us from protracting it further."

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever

“I am already half drowned, and it is only protracting my sufferings.”

From Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. by Anonymous