protraction
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They can also be used to prevent “the expansion and protraction of a war,” the law says, according to the state media report.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
Special movements include inversion, eversion, protraction, retraction, elevation, depression, dorsiflexion, plantar flexion, supination, pronation, and opposition.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The sculpture had become, after all these years, about the protraction of the human foot and the celestial head.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2022
In Kafka’s The Trial, Josef K.’s lawyer gives him the option of filing for a Verschleppung, or protraction.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2014
It was evident that we were in a pitfall, and that resistance was only the protraction of a fate which was now inevitable.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
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