extent
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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
The RBA has permitted this to some extent, saying that it also wanted to focus on retaining as many jobs as it could through the inflation surge that followed the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Some locations did preserve signs of deformation, but those effects were relatively limited in both strength and geographic extent.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
The awful nightmare had now gripped the great brute to such an extent that he was tying his whole body into knots.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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All three regions subsidize EV purchases to varying extents.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
"Some species, like the elegant madtom, had high relative sensitivity across spatial extents yet had no state or federal conservation listings," Silknetter said.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024
The three lowest minimum extents in the satellite era have now occurred in the last three years.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024
“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
The others claimed lands of various extents, stretching to the Mississippi River, or even to the Pacific Ocean.
From Government and Administration of the United States by Westel W. Willoughby
Vocabulary lists containing extent
Commonly Confused Words, List 5
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James Monroe's First Inaugural Address (1817)
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Words from the First 2020 Presidential Debate
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