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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

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

Labour MP Emily Darlington said the app and others like it could be harming children's development because it rewards them for "length of time rather than quality of time spent online".

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

The coyote couldn’t cross the entire length of the structure, which consists of two overpasses — one above the freeway and one above an adjacent road — connected by a graded slope.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

The relentless cleaning of the vessel uncovered, hidden beneath the layers of concretion, a water tube that ran the length of the forty-foot sub.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

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

Solea Pfeiffer and Liisi LaFontaine star in the Broadway show about the lengths people are willing to go to protect their family and claim what is rightfully theirs.

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

Although that is much slower than an Olympic swimmer, who can travel up to 65 body lengths per minute, it is comparable to the swimming pace of a cow shark moving leisurely through the ocean.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

A furious heat rises in me, from my gut to the tips of my fingers, and my body clenches at his audacity, at the lies, at the lengths he’s willing to go to punish me.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam


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