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Higher interest rates threaten to prolong private equity’s record $349 billion backlog of “zombie funds,” making exits harder, squeezing fee income and potentially forcing some firms to shrink.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

His base case continues to be that the Fed chair’s challenges on inflation and bond yields, the upcoming midterm elections and the end of earnings season catalysts will prolong the near-term choppiness.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

A permanent position would reassure markets of policy continuity, while a temporary role could prolong uncertainty and leave the burden of maintaining stability to her eventual successor, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

This year’s El Niño is also expected to prolong an already existing marine heat wave — currently in effect for reasons unrelated to El Niño — off the Southern California coast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

I was furious that the State would try to prolong any order granting relief to Walter.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

What we do not yet have are large, definitive randomized trials showing that high-dose intravenous vitamin C clearly prolongs life for most cancer patients.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

"That only prolongs what will eventually happen: a negotiated settlement."

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

“To deny that only prolongs the situation and puts off any way of reckoning with it. We have to face it in order to understand that it’s within our human nature.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

It’s not the phone itself causing problems, of course, but the fact that it often prolongs a visit to the toilet.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025

This prolongs the period the larvae must spend in the hazardous world of the plankton and so decreases the chance they will live to adulthood.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Months of dry weather and prolonged heat have revealed a bridge dating back to the Victorian times that had been submerged during the creation of a reservoir.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

In my next issue of “Let’s Analyze” on Substack, I’ll share 10 companies I think are best positioned to weather a prolonged period of wider spreads and expensive money.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Oxford Economics expects a more prolonged Middle East conflict to hurt Asia-Pacific industrial production via higher energy prices and tighter monetary policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The findings could also help coastal communities and resource managers better understand how prolonged warming affects marine environments.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

There is a prolonged pause, each waiting to see how forthcoming the other is.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Some antibiotics, contraceptive pills and other prescription medicines can have the opposite effect, allowing caffeine to stay trapped in the body for longer and prolonging the effects.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Instead, he had to halt his throwing progression multiple times for flare-ups, prolonging his time on the IL.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Many operators now avoid the passage and send ships instead around South Africa's Cape of Good Hope, vastly prolonging the journey between Asia and Europe and driving up fuel costs and emissions.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

He wants “to build a new healthcare system from the ground up, solely optimizing for prevention of disease and prolonging healthy life using every tool, technology, piece of scientific and medical information available to us.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

The idea of subsisting on greenery alone — of prolonging that full-yet-empty stabbing sensation in my stomach — was totally unappealing, but the leaves would keep me alive.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer