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far-stretched



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"It's far-stretched to say this is a rollback of reform," Pacheco said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2014

While you're wondering whether this all sounds like some kind of farfetched – make that far-stretched – intellectual exercise, here comes Nicolas Jaar.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2011

He has been at once the author and the audience of the pitiful, unspeakable, long-drawn and far-stretched tragedy of earthly life.

From God and my Neighbour by Robert Blatchford

"Enough, my friend, is as good as a feast," said his rider to him, gently, yet strongly pulling up the far-stretched head, "and too much is worse than a famine."

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

With shop-board breeding and intrusion, By some outlandish institution, With Calvin's method and conclusion, To bring all things into confusion, And far-stretched sighs for mere illusion; 'Tis a new teacher, etc.

From Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 by Charles Mackay


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