extensions

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After losing last season’s NFC championship game, the team quickly signed McVay and Snead — who were entering the final years of their contracts — to long-term extensions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

Rising demand for agricultural loans, extensions and renewals can boost revenue from interest for lenders.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

While speculative extensions of physics — such as exotic forms of matter or modifications of general relativity — have been proposed to support such structures, they remain untested and highly conjectural.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

As a result of intense lobbying by the branded pharmaceutical industry, patent-term extensions were born in the U.S. in the early 1980s under what is now more commonly known as the Hatch-Waxman Act.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

If the higher note is labelled 11add11, don't include the chord extensions that aren't named.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones