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The blaze reduced a small stretch of mostly women-owned shops and a beloved restaurant to smoldering ruins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

To call these aggregated shows “adult” is kind; to call them “transgressive” doesn’t do them justice; to call them “shows” is a stretch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Their meeting comes as the 27-member European Union braces for tough negotiations to agree a joint budget for the seven-year stretch 2028-34.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Nicholson-White said the boy's school attendance deteriorated and he was not in school at all for an 11-day stretch in September.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Pointy stalagmites made of pure gold stretch up toward the surface, like mountains under the water.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

The NBA’s current deal that stretches to the 2035-36 season is worth $6.9 billion per year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The “All Eyez on Me” album stretches across 27 songs over more than two hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

During those house-sitting stretches in the neighborhood, I started feeling, embarrassingly quickly, like something of a local.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

One left turn at a roundabout and the road gave way to wide stretches of beach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

“It was a strange feeling to be there for an hour...there in the middle of the great prairies. I felt as if the stretches on all sides were limitless.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

His pale, almost translucently white skin was stretched across the bones of his face like parchment.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

When positioning in futures markets starts to look stretched in either direction, it could signal that a reversal is imminent.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

Valuations today are so stretched that it may not take much more straw to break the camel’s back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

The JSerra Girls Flag Football team stretched its season-opening winning streak to eight straight games with a resounding 41-6 triumph over the Edison Chargers in a nonleague battle on Thursday at JSerra Catholic High School.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

Duane hit the center of the stretched blanket.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

The record suggests a miscount, possibly several miscounts among Pearblossom and its neighboring desert hamlets stretching east to the San Bernardino County line: Littlerock, Llano, Lake Los Angeles and Sun Village.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

OpenAI’s enterprise ambitions are stretching to ad teams, and the company is hiring a San Francisco-based head of ads enterprise marketing to shape that positioning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

He acknowledged the target was "really stretching" but said nearly 180,000 children were in temporary accommodation and "any smaller target wouldn't be commensurate with the scale of the challenge".

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

In the Appalachian region stretching through the US state of West Virginia, the reddish water flowing out of retired coal mines is acidic, full of heavy metals and toxic for the environment.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

Celia finishes stretching her calves and juts her hips to one side to stretch her hip flexors, and then she squints at something behind me.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison