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length

[lengkth, length, lenth] / lɛŋkθ, lɛŋθ, lɛnθ /


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So it wasn’t surprising that his damage control came quickly and at length in a Twitter essay the following morning.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2026

The larvae can reach an impressive five inches in length, while the adult beetles do not feed.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

Emery would relish the opportunity to play an even bigger role in developing the club for the long term, with talks ongoing about the fine details, the finances, and the length of the new deal.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Although legislators have not discussed Social Security reform at length, proposals have floated around about ways to fix the program’s financing woes.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

In eight hours, he had managed to crawl, flop, and drag himself the length of two football fields.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

"Jensen in my conversations with him and in other conversations has gone to great lengths to present himself as a family man. That's very important to him," says Witt.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

In an X post on Monday, Currie went to great lengths to explain how and why he differentiates between his short and long-term views on the oil trade.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

While the museum has largely kept mum, Sytner, an 82-year-old Liverpool native based in Italy, has gone to great lengths to persuade collectors and experts of his car’s singular authenticity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

In a forest grove to the east, a contractor climbed into a mechanical harvester and pivoted its head to grip and fell a tree, strip its branches and cut the trunk into exact lengths.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

And Pierre went to great lengths: he planted stories about the Patriarch of Antioch in Dutch and French newspapers on the offchance that Boyle would come across them.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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