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far-stretched



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"It's far-stretched to say this is a rollback of reform," Pacheco said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2014

While you're wondering whether this all sounds like some kind of farfetched – make that far-stretched – intellectual exercise, here comes Nicolas Jaar.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2011

So many times every minute his left arm swept out into the sunlight as he flung it forward with far-stretched palm.

From The Gold Trail by Harold Bindloss

Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet.

From A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools by Percy Lubbock

On the other hand, idle, far-stretched gossip was rife and was even growing in extravagance as the evening wore on.

From The Tangled Skein by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy




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