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The director allows her protagonist’s pain to protract and pulsate without narrative fuss; even scenes of turmoil unspool with a deliberate delicacy.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

The judges agreed with a lower court that continuing treatment “serves only to protract his death.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2022

Last week, Mr Justice Hayden ruled that continued treatment was "futile" and that it "serves only to protract his death, whilst being unable to prolong his life".

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2022

Associated Newspapers "have a right to this trial, and I think that that is just going to protract the pain for Meghan Markle," Stephens said.

From Fox News ● Dec. 2, 2021

I brushed the lever lightly, listening as the hydraulic cylinders hissed softly to protract.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

The episodic nature of the work protracts the ending.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

“If the conflict protracts, the Ukrainians have more leverage to be able to negotiate,” Watling said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

What distinguishes this pandemic as a traumatic experience, she said, is that no one knows when it will end, which protracts anxiety.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2020

Matthew Warchus's revival protracts the overall experience to three hours... at least a small part of this excess is attributable to the meal Spall makes of his lines.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2016

This remorse protracts a connection which each day is productive of more painful feelings; but the heart cannot be overstrung, and anxiety ends in callousness.

From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

The protracted crisis in China's real estate market -- long a key driver of national growth -- has heavily impacted the country's economy.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Patterson's team said the chief prosecutor Dr Nanette Rogers had been protracted and aggressive in a cross-examination "doused with impermissible conduct".

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Cubans take pride in facing hardship with resilience and ingenuity, but that fortitude comes at a high psychological cost amid the island's latest protracted crisis.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

That growth was driven primarily by assets it bought from Hess last year, following a protracted arbitration fight with Exxon, as well as the Permian.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

She would have preferred shouting to this protracted, knife-sharp silence.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

It’s good that the bar at Itsumono is a fine hangout, because as the place fills up you will hang out, with waits between drinks protracting even with two barkeeps at work.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

"I foresee little benefit to either of us from protracting it further."

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever

And if they catch any one in their toils, they entangle him in a thousand meshes, pretending sickness by way of protracting the consultations.

From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Charles Duke Yonge

It did not occur to his mind that Dieppe had anything to gain—or even a bare chance of gaining anything—by protracting the conversation.

From Captain Dieppe by Anthony Hope

Upon this they despatched ambassadors into the enemy's camp; and whilst these were protracting negotiations during the night, the Thebans, with their wives and children, evacuated the city.

From Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens