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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

The Germans had not broken our line, our one thin, straggling, far-stretched line.

From Private Peat by Harold Reginald Peat

"Enough, my friend, is as good as a feast," said his rider to him, gently, yet strongly pulling up the far-stretched head, "and too much is worse than a famine."

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

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 The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum




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