lengthen
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As the nights lengthen through autumn, one of the most recognisable star clusters in the night sky becomes increasingly prominent.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
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
Hostess had worked, before the Smucker acquisition, to lengthen that shelf life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Eccentric exercise focuses on the phase when muscles lengthen rather than shorten.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2026
She had bought a turtle for my grandfather because it would lengthen his life.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
“As the delay lengthens, financing costs, integration risk, transaction expenses and lost strategic flexibility become increasingly tangible,” said Barak Orbach, a law and business professor at the University of Arizona.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 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
Eventually, as the day lengthens and circumstances and visual cues recall how we were first introduced to this world, a narrative darkening carries us into the final moments of “Evil Does Not Exist.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
They won't want to let their local rivals get to 400 though, on a pitch likely to turn as the game lengthens.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
Celia lengthens her stride, so I do, too, and up we go, picking up our pace instead of slowing down.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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
As necks lengthened over evolutionary time, the nerve was stretched rather than rerouted.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 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
Input price and selling price increases remained elevated, delivery times lengthened, and supply availability worsened in June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
June passed, and the days lengthened into summer, plague had died out, but with its going went many of the people of London, even some of the monks.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
If that happens, the melt season could begin lengthening again.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
The study, however, didn’t attribute the lengthening delays to flaws in the single-payer system, but rather to the increasing complexity of cancer care and changes in hospital practices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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
Longevity is creating new investment opportunities while also lengthening the planning horizon for individuals and families.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
The ones at the corners of my mouth are lengthening into a pale ropy circle around my lips.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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