stretch
Example Sentences
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But it angered suppliers by announcing it would stretch terms for new orders to 90 days of receipt instead of the traditional 60-day window.
Hordle Cliff, near Christchurch on England's south coast, preserves fossils from the Eocene, a stretch of time from about 56 to 34 million years ago.
From Science Daily
Last season, they endured a stretch of only two wins from mid-December through the final week of February.
From BBC
“While today’s progression appears to be a slightly more stretched version of last decade’s issues and fixes,” the firm wrote, “it seems to be moving in the right direction.”
From Barron's
Shorter stretches of at least 24 days for copper have been fairly common in recent years.
From MarketWatch
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