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extension

[ik-sten-shuhn] / ɪkˈstɛn ʃən /


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With advice from Union and the University of Georgia county extension office, she began raising pine.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

By extension, these kinds of directives are a way of messaging that a woman’s place is in the home, according to Leslie Kern, author of “The Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World.”

From Salon Aug. 27, 2026

BMW opened a new plant in lower-cost Hungary last year and Mercedes-Benz unveiled an extension to its Hungarian Kecskemet plant last month, making it the firm's largest in Europe.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

The striker signed a four-and-half year contract when joining permanently in January 2022, in a deal that also included the option of a 12-month extension.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

Pascal’s new hydraulics is an extension of his vacuum experiments, but Galileo’s work on floating bodies is not path-specific in this way.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

In late 2024, CD&R said it would restructure mobility-services company Vialto Partners with the unanimous support of its first-lien lenders for a new capital injection and debt extensions.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Axons are extensions of nerve cells that allow neurons to communicate with one another.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

They join safeties Quentin Lake and Kam Curl — both of whom received extensions — to give the Rams one of the strongest units in the league.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

In this scenario, output from the Persian Gulf doesn’t recover until December next year, with the support of oil-pipeline extensions.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

One of these southward extensions is in the region of the Fire-Hills, the last peaks of the Sembensyens, and that region was our first goal.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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