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extension

[ik-sten-shuhn] / ɪkˈstɛn ʃən /


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President Trump, who beat Harris in the 2024 election, revoked the extension in August 2025.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

She was awarded an MBE in 2024 for services to football, and signed a three-year contract extension with City that year.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

The left-back, who has been the subject of interest from Manchester United, has agreed a two-year extension to his original deal.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

In 2017, under President Christina Paxson, Brown oversaw the extension of the Providence, R.I., eruv, allowing observant Jews to carry objects on campus during the Sabbath.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

The monkeys started coming into my house as though it were an extension of our home tree, which, from their perspective, I guess it was.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

“We’re being kept on this thread of extensions, and we don’t know when that thread is going to break.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

The documents stated the applications were for "alterations and repairs, new extensions, reversal of modern alterations, replacement windows and forming new doorways".

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

Some thicker icebergs that break from tidewater glaciers without floating ice shelf extensions can scrape along the seabed or become grounded inside a fjord.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

It’s the same playbook that made Dyson’s Airwrap and Stanley’s Quencher hits—one that less-successful extensions like Peloton’s apparel line could have used.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

But somehow, over these last months, Laila and Aziza—a harami like herself, as it turned out—had become extensions of her, and now, without them, the life Mariam had tolerated for so long suddenly seemed intolerable.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini




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