extension
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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
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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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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 6
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