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"I just think about the time span. That's why our game is so incredible," defending champion Rory McIlroy said earlier this week.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
“The U.S., and this administration in particular, has a short attention span. They could leave, and we are stuck here,” said al-Saif.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026
“Just think sixth-grader hobby and attention span. At some point I go, ‘Hey, am I going to be the greatest of all time at this?
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2022
“CenturyLink Field is a 720-foot span. It’s more like a bridge than a building,” says Jon Magnusson, whose Seattle-based firm Magnusson Klemencic Associates engineered the city’s major sports stadiums.
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2017
“I can’t say. He’s obsessed with his privacy. He wouldn’t tell me his real name for more than a span. Even now I don’t know if the name he’s given me is real.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Vocabulary lists containing span
President Obama's Speech at Hiroshima
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Civil Engineering
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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