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The charity's manager Rod Bowen said drivers make about 50 journeys to hospital appointments each week and had noticed that the ambulance service's capacity "has been stretched".

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

But the remainder feels leftover — formless and aimless — like tinfoil stretched around a clunky, conventional mass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Close to 1 in 4 homeowners is “house rich” and stretched thin everywhere else, and that usually includes retirement accounts.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

The wave of arrests is straining an already stretched justice system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

He was off a little to one side, stretched out on the cold ground.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls


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