stretching
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They are borrowing more to finance vehicles and stretching their terms to keep payments manageable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
They then used 24 estimates of the world population stretching across the past 2,000 years to show that human numbers have in fact continually outpaced expectations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
An installment sale or promissory note could certainly make that happen, but I’d be wary of stretching payments out that far just to protect Son #2 in case of divorce.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
In Long Beach, with less than two hours before high tide, workers on the Peninsula raced early Sunday morning to build a sand berm stretching westward from 62nd Place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
“I couldn’t have done it without you either. Just do me a favor,” he said, stretching as he yawned.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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