elongate
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“That way we don’t need to create completely new infrastructure for our solutions and elongate the commercialization cycle,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Fifa was able to elongate a matchday at either end, with games scheduled over a 14-hour period so it could stay true to exclusive time windows for television coverage.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“If Intel’s view of CPU-to-GPU reaching parity with agents proves right, we think that can help elongate the memory cycle,” Sankar said.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
“I wish that these big organizations were looking into these things differently, because you could elongate careers and elongate lives,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
Tyler tried to curl Dad’s fingers, to elongate the tendons and prevent the deformity from becoming permanent, but Dad couldn’t bear the pain.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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In males, it grows from a small cluster of cells into a little white pimple that elongates between the eyes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025
Near-sightedness, formally known as myopia, occurs when the eye elongates, causing light to focus in front of the retina instead of directly on it, producing blurry vision.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2025
The exquisite chamber-soul arrangement thrums inexorably yet with zero hurry; the vocal precisely elongates each phrase just a tick or two beyond where you expect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025
He elongates a tune into a precise tonal reckoning — no mishaps or blips on the cosmic screen.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
And someone’s mouth elongates heavy, silent words through the barrier of glass.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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Most anyone born in the 20th century would take one look at her plush retro alarm clock radio and instinctively feel the urge to whack its elongated vinyl “snooze” button.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Now Nasa is working around that problem using the X-59's elongated snout to flatten supersonic booms into tolerable bumps in the background.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Soon afterward, Doppler weather radar at Newark Airport briefly detected an elongated cloud of falling pebbles extending from Staten Island into New Jersey.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
And AI is forcing us all to ponder: What are we supposed to do with our elongated lives if technology wipes out the jobs that once gave us purpose?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
I took out my pen and uncapped it The bronze blade of Riptide elongated in my hand.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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“The drivers of HDD demand are broadening, visibility is elongating, pricing is strengthening, and our new bull cases are coming closer into play,” Woodring wrote.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Traditionally, skiers negotiate the steepest terrain of a course by feathering their skis at a slight diagonal and elongating their stride to help them conserve energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
It felt wonderful, as if my spine were elongating, all the stress draining from my back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025
At the BJK Cup in Malaga, Raducanu spoke about tweaking her service motion and elongating the takeback in a search for extra power.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2025
He began to change, his nose elongating into a snout, his skin becoming sleek and gray.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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