extension

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"What makes this question so hard to answer is that direct observations are very sparse in northern Alaska," says Rawlins, extension associate professor of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences at UMass Amherst.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

The FDA’s road to regulating compounding pharmacies — and by extension the peptides they seek to dispense — has been long and tedious.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

"We just know each other so well and we're just like an extension of each other," she says.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Nacua is one of four Rams 2023 draft picks eligible for an extension this offseason.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

In his quarterly letters he coined a phrase to describe what he thought was happening: “the extension of credit by instrument.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis