prolong
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Step 6: Prolong the investigation as long as you want.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2023
Prolong the life of women with triple negative breast cancer?
From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2011
She recalled and repeated aloud one of her mother's stanzas: "'Sweet as a wind-lute's airy strains Your gentle muse has learned to sing And California's boundless plains Prolong the soft notes echoing.'"
From The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack
Prolong the action of necessity, and augment industry to a certain point, which, when they pass, they crush it, 107, 108.--
From An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by Playfair, William
Prolong your stay here but a few days, Sir Councillor!
From Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III Lady Inger of Ostrat by Ibsen, Henrik
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