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Fifa was able to elongate a matchday at either end, with games scheduled over a 14-hour period so it could stay true to exclusive time windows for television coverage.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

In his view, price resets don’t indicate the end of the cycle, but rather a necessity to elongate the boom.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

When stretched, solids elongate until they reach a critical stress point, then break suddenly in a process known as brittle fracture.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 30, 2026

Time indoors looking at screens can cause eyeballs to elongate, leaving kids nearsighted for life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

Tyler tried to curl Dad’s fingers, to elongate the tendons and prevent the deformity from becoming permanent, but Dad couldn’t bear the pain.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

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

In his time at Canuck Place, Dr. Siden said, the facility’s focus has expanded, alongside palliative care, to include more symptom management for long-term illnesses — treatment that doesn’t cure young patients but elongates survival.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2023

Brown shades of eye shadow appear on her lids, and mascara elongates her lashes.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

The previous Galaxy Fold models are typical phone-shaped rectangles when closed, and Samsung is continuing the same elongated look with its new Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Some viewers were fascinated with Argentine sports commentator Andrés Cantor’s elongated “¡gooool!” cheer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

So if you want a window moved or the bathroom expanded or the roof over the porch elongated, that change order would cost you about $2,000, on average.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

Those observations suggested it was an elongated object completing one rotation every 10.5 Earth days.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026

Eventually they discovered that an elongated teardrop shape, with the wide end oriented toward the magnet’s center, quadrupled the maximum potential acceleration to 300 steps, or 150 complete circuits.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

“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

“Lukaaaaa,” Smart said, elongating Luka Doncic’s name while smiling toward his star teammate who was sitting with his feet in an ice bucket with ice bags wrapped around his knees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

In addition to needing glasses or corrective lenses, people with myopia are at a higher risk of experiencing a detached retina if the retina has to stretch too far to accommodate the elongating eye.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2025

The people, thousands of them, crept forward, their limbs stretching, elongating as they limped and crawled and skittered like insects.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby