extent
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The overall mellowing of the forecast comes as the extent of coastal damage remains less than what some officials feared.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Cerutti, who has buyers in Britain, Dubai and the US, acknowledged her production has suffered from the heat too, to some extent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
"I'm fishing and I'm able to get out and about. I'm able to go out with my friends again and enjoy myself, albeit not to the same extent, but I'm still happy."
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
At 24 Debs was elected Terre Haute city clerk, where the extent of his heterodoxy was waiving criminal fines against prostitutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Unlike the Western universe, the Hindu cosmos was infinite in extent; beyond our own universe were innumerable other universes.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
All three regions subsidize EV purchases to varying extents.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
Since then, Antarctica has shown a series of very low sea-ice extents, although there is still lots of natural variability.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
Locating these moraines enabled the researchers to map older glacier extents before pilots took their first flyover photos in the early 1930s.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
Their geographic extents and how long they lasted were similar.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
When speaking of operations that are typical of some foreign mining districts and especially those that possess ore-bodies whose extents are readily calculated, no clever prophecy is required to ascertain the proper amount of equipment.
From The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines by Arthur J. Hoskin
Vocabulary lists containing extent
Commonly Confused Words, List 5
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James Monroe's First Inaugural Address (1817)
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Words from the First 2020 Presidential Debate
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