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elongate

[ih-lawng-gayt, ih-long-, ee-lawng-gayt, ee-long-] / ɪˈlɔŋ geɪt, ɪˈlɒŋ-, ˈi lɔŋˌgeɪt, ˈi lɒŋ- /


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“That way we don’t need to create completely new infrastructure for our solutions and elongate the commercialization cycle,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

“If Intel’s view of CPU-to-GPU reaching parity with agents proves right, we think that can help elongate the memory cycle,” Sankar said.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026

“I wish that these big organizations were looking into these things differently, because you could elongate careers and elongate lives,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

The tweak helped a sharper Swiatek elongate the rallies and put more pressure on Sabalenka's serve, with the Pole winning the next three games to move 5-4 ahead.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025

They elongate on the pale slender stalks of their longing, like sunflowers with heavy heads.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

In males, it grows from a small cluster of cells into a little white pimple that elongates between the eyes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025

Near-sightedness, formally known as myopia, occurs when the eye elongates, causing light to focus in front of the retina instead of directly on it, producing blurry vision.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2025

The exquisite chamber-soul arrangement thrums inexorably yet with zero hurry; the vocal precisely elongates each phrase just a tick or two beyond where you expect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025

So it elongates, causing the light rays to fall in front of the retina and the myopia to progress.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2023

And someone’s mouth elongates heavy, silent words through the barrier of glass.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Arnold was a 9-year-old boy with an elongated ovoid head who enjoyed listening to jazz fusion under the skylight of his attic bedroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The animal measured only about 60 centimeters in length, yet it had an unusually elongated neck and tail.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

Now Nasa is working around that problem using the X-59's elongated snout to flatten supersonic booms into tolerable bumps in the background.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Soon afterward, Doppler weather radar at Newark Airport briefly detected an elongated cloud of falling pebbles extending from Staten Island into New Jersey.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

Ellipses have two centers, or foci; the more elongated the ellipse, the farther apart these foci are.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

“The drivers of HDD demand are broadening, visibility is elongating, pricing is strengthening, and our new bull cases are coming closer into play,” Woodring wrote.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Traditionally, skiers negotiate the steepest terrain of a course by feathering their skis at a slight diagonal and elongating their stride to help them conserve energy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

At the BJK Cup in Malaga, Raducanu spoke about tweaking her service motion and elongating the takeback in a search for extra power.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2025

“Proud,” Kamala Harris said, elongating the word and stretching its vowels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

They were prepared this time, elongating to avoid his antlers.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova


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