stretching
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There’s no shortage of new ones to choose from, but there’s also a catalog of cinematic scarefests stretching back more than a century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Martinez had earlier played his part in the Blues securing a first Premier League clean sheet in nine months, a run stretching back 23 matches.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 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
Its nose is working overtime, wrinkling and stretching as it sniffs the air.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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