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extension

[ik-sten-shuhn] / ɪkˈstɛn ʃən /


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At the SNP conference, Swinney announced the extension of the £2 bus fare cap, with Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire to be covered from April.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

As a result, true price discovery for Treasury securities, and by extension yields, is at hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

But which version of her Fielder — and, by extension, the audience — sees, and which version is the truest, remains up for debate.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Sliding glass doors further connect the interior to the outdoor areas, allowing the lush backyard to serve as an extension of the home’s living space.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

A smaller number of people—more than ten, fewer than twenty—made a straightforward bet against the entire multi-trillion-dollar subprime mortgage market and, by extension, the global financial system.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

It also strengthens state oversight of existing leases by requiring additional scrutiny and waiting periods for renewals, extensions or changes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Hanle has few hotels and no resorts, so visitors mostly stay in family-run homestays, often extensions of their homes.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

There, the stress of the combat operations, repeated deployment extensions and uncertainty about when they would return home all contributed to deteriorating standards, discipline and group norms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

They then performed leg extensions, an exercise in which a person sits and straightens the lower legs against resistance to lift a weight.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

“The exact amount of human variability,” he wrote, could be explained by rather obvious extensions of Mendelian genetics.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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