duration
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"Arranging for an astronaut to carry out a one-year in-orbit residency experiment is by no means a simple matter of adding together two six-month missions in terms of duration," Zhang said.
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
What's extraordinary about this heatwave is not only the level of heat but its duration.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Whenever a bond matures, a replacement bond is purchased with the requisite duration so that the overall ladder’s duration remains relatively unchanged.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
“The scale of the downturn remains highly uncertain, depending on the conflict’s duration and intensity,” the UN said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
In the months that would follow, 120,000 Japanese American men, women, and children would arrive at assembly centers throughout the West Coast and then be transferred to “relocation centers” for the duration of the war.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing duration
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
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