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Fifa was able to elongate a matchday at either end, with games scheduled over a 14-hour period so it could stay true to exclusive time windows for television coverage.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

“If Intel’s view of CPU-to-GPU reaching parity with agents proves right, we think that can help elongate the memory cycle,” Sankar said.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026

Language’s capacity to elongate the self in time burdened us with anxiety and regret.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

“I wish that these big organizations were looking into these things differently, because you could elongate careers and elongate lives,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

Tyler tried to curl Dad’s fingers, to elongate the tendons and prevent the deformity from becoming permanent, but Dad couldn’t bear the pain.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

In males, it grows from a small cluster of cells into a little white pimple that elongates between the eyes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025

Near-sightedness, formally known as myopia, occurs when the eye elongates, causing light to focus in front of the retina instead of directly on it, producing blurry vision.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2025

The exquisite chamber-soul arrangement thrums inexorably yet with zero hurry; the vocal precisely elongates each phrase just a tick or two beyond where you expect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025

So it elongates, causing the light rays to fall in front of the retina and the myopia to progress.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2023

And someone’s mouth elongates heavy, silent words through the barrier of glass.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Now Nasa is working around that problem using the X-59's elongated snout to flatten supersonic booms into tolerable bumps in the background.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Snake embryos must lengthen rapidly to produce their unusually elongated bodies, but the gut does not grow at the same rate.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

Some viewers were fascinated with Argentine sports commentator Andrés Cantor’s elongated “¡gooool!” cheer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

The previous Galaxy Fold models are typical phone-shaped rectangles when closed, and Samsung is continuing the same elongated look with its new Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

He looked at the elongated oval shape on the map again, noticing the seven ridges running along it lengthwise.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

“The drivers of HDD demand are broadening, visibility is elongating, pricing is strengthening, and our new bull cases are coming closer into play,” Woodring wrote.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Traditionally, skiers negotiate the steepest terrain of a course by feathering their skis at a slight diagonal and elongating their stride to help them conserve energy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

At the BJK Cup in Malaga, Raducanu spoke about tweaking her service motion and elongating the takeback in a search for extra power.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2025

“No-body!” the team responds, elongating the first syllable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024

Two o'clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald