protracted
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With the market closed until January, the club are now in the process of finalising an agreement with manager Mikel Arteta over his protracted new contract.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
“With inflation above target for a protracted period, there is a risk of broader price pressures taking hold,” Fed governor Michael Barr said last week.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
“It’s a long, protracted process. We’re not going to see companies flood the road with thousands of autonomous trucks tomorrow.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
But after protracted and public negotiations to agree on a new contract to use the AI models in a military setting failed, Anthropic found itself in the Pentagon’s crosshairs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
And rowing makes these muscular demands not at odd intervals but in rapid sequence, over a protracted period of time, repeatedly and without respite.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing protracted
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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This Week in Words: August 10–16, 2019
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And Then There Were None
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