extent
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To an extent, a smaller supply of potential workers suggests that the labor market can be considered healthy even if there aren’t as many jobs being created as in the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
According to minutes from a Thursday hearing on the matter, Rockwell concluded that, to the extent the measure’s backers object to that language, they are objecting to “the provisions of the measure itself.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
The BBC's Dan Johnson visited Anastasiia's home near Kyiv to see the extent of the damage and the emotional toll on residents.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Chew illustrated the extent of the bearish acceleration in sentiment shift in an update to his equity markets positioning model published on Monday.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
There was no way she could have known what was going to happen to these Wall Street firms, or even the extent of their losses in the subprime mortgage market.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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All three regions subsidize EV purchases to varying extents.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
Since then, Antarctica has shown a series of very low sea-ice extents, although there is still lots of natural variability.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
Locating these moraines enabled the researchers to map older glacier extents before pilots took their first flyover photos in the early 1930s.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
Their geographic extents and how long they lasted were similar.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
Large forests of mahogany, cedar, zapotillo trees cover vast extents of land in the eastern and southern portions of the peninsula; whilst patches of logwood and mora, many miles in length, grow near the coast.
From Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa by Le Plongeon, Augustus
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Commonly Confused Words, List 5
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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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