elongate
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“That way we don’t need to create completely new infrastructure for our solutions and elongate the commercialization cycle,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Fifa was able to elongate a matchday at either end, with games scheduled over a 14-hour period so it could stay true to exclusive time windows for television coverage.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“If Intel’s view of CPU-to-GPU reaching parity with agents proves right, we think that can help elongate the memory cycle,” Sankar said.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
“I wish that these big organizations were looking into these things differently, because you could elongate careers and elongate lives,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
Tyler tried to curl Dad’s fingers, to elongate the tendons and prevent the deformity from becoming permanent, but Dad couldn’t bear the pain.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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In males, it grows from a small cluster of cells into a little white pimple that elongates between the eyes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025
Near-sightedness, formally known as myopia, occurs when the eye elongates, causing light to focus in front of the retina instead of directly on it, producing blurry vision.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2025
The exquisite chamber-soul arrangement thrums inexorably yet with zero hurry; the vocal precisely elongates each phrase just a tick or two beyond where you expect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025
He elongates a tune into a precise tonal reckoning — no mishaps or blips on the cosmic screen.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
Brown shades of eye shadow appear on her lids, and mascara elongates her lashes.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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While Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich all lost to English teams in last season's elongated Champions League league stage, it has been a very different story when it really mattered.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Most anyone born in the 20th century would take one look at her plush retro alarm clock radio and instinctively feel the urge to whack its elongated vinyl “snooze” button.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Soon afterward, Doppler weather radar at Newark Airport briefly detected an elongated cloud of falling pebbles extending from Staten Island into New Jersey.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Some scientists proposed that snakes first became elongated and limbless while adapting to underground life, while others argued that the body plan emerged in aquatic environments.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
All Mark could see inside the box were shiny, elongated forms that reflected the red light.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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“The drivers of HDD demand are broadening, visibility is elongating, pricing is strengthening, and our new bull cases are coming closer into play,” Woodring wrote.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Traditionally, skiers negotiate the steepest terrain of a course by feathering their skis at a slight diagonal and elongating their stride to help them conserve energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
It felt wonderful, as if my spine were elongating, all the stress draining from my back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025
In addition to needing glasses or corrective lenses, people with myopia are at a higher risk of experiencing a detached retina if the retina has to stretch too far to accommodate the elongating eye.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2025
They were prepared this time, elongating to avoid his antlers.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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