stretch
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From there, you can see the entire area of the proposed development, acres and acres of it, including the stretch of unspoiled white-sand beach between the lagoon and the sea that we’d just driven past.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Now, as the post-Labor Day stretch begins, a number of new challenges lie ahead: ever-shifting odds of an interest-rate increase from the Federal Reserve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
During one stretch on Ashe, Kostyuk said, “I didn’t even hear the ball, like even when I was hitting it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
I fed it my self-care goals: read more, go for a walk, track my nutritional intake, and take a daily stretch break.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
“I’m not sure how I should answer that, sir,” I finally said when the silence had begun to stretch uncomfortably.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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Young Anakin’s podracer, a striped cockpit strapped to twin shuttlecock engines, stretches down one side of an aisle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Tired of the overcrowded beaches of Italy, Greece, and Spain, savvy developers are looking for new stretches of the coastline and have landed on Albania.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
The trend stretches back to the global financial crisis.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Sitting for many shorter periods may not carry the same associations as remaining sedentary for longer, uninterrupted stretches.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
This road of endless ruts and missing stretches of pavement had been built during the first American occupation of Haiti, in the early twentieth century.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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Ms Richards said: "Our midwives are stretched, and quite often that is often impacted into the postnatal care, into the community settings."
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Each switch controlled a different color of light as portions of the fabric were stretched and snapped between configurations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
As teenagers growing up in the area, they climbed the staircase barefoot, sprinted the hill overlooking the Pacific and stretched their limbs on the shoreline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
His wide base left him uncomfortably stretched out, and his hand position was leading to a barrage of routine ground balls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The blanket was stretched out as tight as they could pull.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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I may have been stretching and reading more, but it sure did feel like I was performing wellness versus actually feeling well.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
The Chief is stretching here, and the majority replies that Lujan required more than a “cognizable interest” for standing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Only a handful of the more than 1,000 bodies recovered by authorities so far have been identified, stretching Nepal's already limited morgue capacity.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Cars, trucks and parts are among the main goods traded between the US, Canada and Mexico, with the manufacturing sector and supply chains stretching across borders.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
As the wind tore the mist into shreds, I could see the sea, gray as a selkie’s coat, stretching itself from Ireland to Brooklyn, New York, America.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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