lengthen
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El Niño also is expected to lengthen the marine heat wave off portions of the coast, which is not yet being influenced by the climate pattern.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Scientists have long known that reducing calorie intake can lengthen lifespan in many organisms and lower the risk of age-related illnesses such as cancer.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
Funding shortfalls for research and personal circumstances can also often lengthen the study period.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Hostess had worked, before the Smucker acquisition, to lengthen that shelf life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
No one’s game enough to lengthen their stay and actually walk all the way in.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
It lengthens the Dodgers lineup for Hernández, after a slow start to his year, to return to being a veteran power threat — just in time to, ideally, carry the momentum into the postseason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Treasury prices, which move in the opposite direction to yields, get more sensitive to risks as maturity lengthens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The enzyme telomerase lengthens telomeres, helping protect chromosomes and preventing cells from dying.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026
The transaction lengthens a list of Latin American divestments in recent years including Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Costa Rica and Guatemala.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
The stem lengthens until the tip hits the platform, like a kite's tail.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
In the left map above, the darkest red areas mark the places where the melt season lengthened fastest during that decade.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
AI has the ability to accelerate analysis and speed up work — but paradoxically, it’s lengthened the process of finding the right person for an open role in many cases.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
But Schulte told the BBC's World at One programme that individual governments had to make the decision to suspend the system, not airports themselves, adding that queues lengthened while such decisions were being made.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Better that everyone thought coach Mike Brown was a respectable, friendly boss and not a shrewd tactician who lengthened New York’s bench to give his starters a breath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
He stood up suddenly and lengthened his arms toward the minister, the coffin and his wife’s corpse.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
If that happens, the melt season could begin lengthening again.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
The redevelopment of Camp Schwab includes new buildings and lengthening the runway, an engineering challenge that requires plunging thousands of pylons and tons of landfill into the soft seabed at Oura Bay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The “clearest story” of car loans in recent years has been their lengthening terms, according to Gregory.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Rising temperatures have added more warm, humid days to the calendar in much of the US, lengthening the season in which the disease-carrying insects thrive.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
It was a perfect little model of a lamp-post, about three feet high but lengthening, and thickening in proportion, as they watched it; in fact growing just as the trees had grown.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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