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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

He has been at once the author and the audience of the pitiful, unspeakable, long-drawn and far-stretched tragedy of earthly life.

From God and my Neighbour by Blatchford, Robert

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 Lubbock, Percy

By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made!

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David




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