stretched
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He warned that many people would instead turn to already stretched GP surgeries and emergency departments.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
But the remainder feels leftover — formless and aimless — like tinfoil stretched around a clunky, conventional mass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Later Greek authors, such as Plutarch, were interested in what happened to Medea after she killed her children, and her significance stretched beyond Greece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Wyoming's Sundance Formation, which preserves evidence of an ancient inland sea that once stretched across much of the western United States, has yielded millions of these fossils.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
I stretched out on the sled with two dogs beside me.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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