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
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
A feeling of anxious discomfort seizes upon the wanderer, he hastens with redoubled speed through the far-stretched deserts, and eagerly ascends the mountains piled up before him, in the hope that better things lie beyond.
From Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North by Ida Pfeiffer
Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet.
From A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools by Percy Lubbock
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