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far-stretched



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"It's far-stretched to say this is a rollback of reform," Pacheco said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2014

While you're wondering whether this all sounds like some kind of farfetched – make that far-stretched – intellectual exercise, here comes Nicolas Jaar.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2011

By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made!

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David

On the other hand, idle, far-stretched gossip was rife and was even growing in extravagance as the evening wore on.

From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

He has been at once the author and the audience of the pitiful, unspeakable, long-drawn and far-stretched tragedy of earthly life.

From God and my Neighbour by Blatchford, Robert




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