stretched
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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
Funding of councils, says the JRF, is "stretched to breaking point", with the current model "increasingly unfit for purpose" and "hampering local efforts to reduce poverty".
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
They predict a short-term hit to the housing market as many mortgages rely on two incomes and housing has gotten more expensive relative to salaries, especially for buyers already stretched financially thin.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The coronagraph woke up on Sept. 1 and stretched its digital, electronic, and mechanical "limbs" mid-month.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 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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