extent
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The extent to which AI would complement or replace workers could have significant implications for incomes, demand and ultimately inflation, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The inquiry found that medical research was carried out at Treloar's "to an extent which appears unparalleled elsewhere".
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
“My guess is where that leads is just a lower gradient of returns from here, i.e., as earnings growth slows, the extent to which the market appreciates slows, but on net still positive,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Even so, the average decline in sea ice thickness and extent that accelerated during the 2000s appears to have paused for the time being.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
The entire island of Manhattan could have fit inside this cavern—and she couldn’t even see its full extent.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
All three regions subsidize EV purchases to varying extents.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
The three lowest minimum extents in the satellite era have now occurred in the last three years.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024
The researchers identified 10 other major crops affected to lesser but significant extents, including sorghum, soybeans, potatoes, millet and yams.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2023
Their geographic extents and how long they lasted were similar.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
Agriculture and Industries.—The cultivation of the rice-fields, which cover large extents of the plains of Cochin-China, is by far the chief industry of the colony.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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James Monroe's First Inaugural Address (1817)
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Words from the First 2020 Presidential Debate
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