extent
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However, persistent weakness in the steel market is limiting the extent of the recovery, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
But to the extent Kim responds to other leaders’ signals, Trump’s comment may move him to accelerate the expansion of Pyongyang’s arsenal.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
"We are picking up now probably 10 to 20 a week in specialist attracting traps, which is to be expected due to the extent of it."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The situation has disrupted social and economic life to such an extent that the authorities announced a rare relaxation of security protocols to allow the city of some three million people to keep functioning.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The extent of Brandon’s thoughts are this: Oh, one of Denny’s friends.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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All three regions subsidize EV purchases to varying extents.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
Locating these moraines enabled the researchers to map older glacier extents before pilots took their first flyover photos in the early 1930s.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
"Wagner has had links to both General al-Burhan's enterprises and to Mr Hemedti's enterprises to different extents and in different ways," she says.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2023
“I try to keep it on the low to certain extents of what she can find out,” Ruiz said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
Agriculture and Industries.—The cultivation of the rice-fields, which cover large extents of the plains of Cochin-China, is by far the chief industry of the colony.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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James Monroe's First Inaugural Address (1817)
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