stretch
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"They try to stretch out these processes to the point where people forget and people don't care about them," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
If passed, it would restore vehicles to the stretch on weekdays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
One more day, and this will be the longest stretch without a notable pullback since January 2020, according to Jonathan Krinsky, a top technical strategist at BTIG.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
This remote stretch of the Australian outback is an important grazing area for sheep and cattle, with a landscape typically dominated by hardy plants adapted to limited rainfall.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
He waved back to his mom and felt his face stretch into a smile just as wide as hers.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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By late winter 2026 in the Southern Hemisphere, large stretches of the region's arid shrubland were covered in flowers.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
But the border between the two nations stretches for hundreds of kilometres through remote terrain, making it difficult to police.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Already a concrete bridge stretches across 10 lanes of whizzing traffic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
They may be more open to going to the gym or physical therapy or doing at-home stretches — all proven ways to address back and knee pain.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
She keeps to the side of the two-lane highway that stretches north out of Manila.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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U.S. natural gas futures stretched gains to three sessions, supported by lower production, lingering cooling demand and LNG flows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
"They are stretched to breaking point by chronic under-staffing and unmanageable workloads," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
And so the prospect of watching an eight-hour adaptation of the novel stretched out before me like a five-year semester in which every class was P.E.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Many physicians question whether it’s outdated or strains an already stretched healthcare system.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Before her stretched a vast treeless waste, where heather and dwarf willow hugged the ground in a vain attempt to avoid the wind; where small peat-brown lakes shivered amid tossing marsh grass.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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An installment sale or promissory note could certainly make that happen, but I’d be wary of stretching payments out that far just to protect Son #2 in case of divorce.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
And if struggling is how Mona will mold herself for the theater — stretching and shaping her performance into something worthy of the greater New Jersey area’s most prolific stage — so be it.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
In Long Beach, with less than two hours before high tide, workers on the Peninsula raced early Sunday morning to build a sand berm stretching westward from 62nd Place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
An AFP journalist saw hundreds of protesters stretching several blocks in Manhattan on Friday chanting "No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here" and "No ICE."
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
“What a baby,” Briggs said, stretching out his voice so the vowels took forever and a day.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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