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Oil prices slipped in early trading after Brent crude breached $100 a barrel, as escalating attacks in the Middle East threatened to dramatically prolong disruptions to energy flows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Long-term agreements are one way that the chip makers can prolong or insure their earnings an margins, by tying up clients into deals that last years.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

“I feel like that’s helped prolong my career. … You can take what you want and take what works for you … that’s kind of the advice I give.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

A permanent position would reassure markets of policy continuity, while a temporary role could prolong uncertainty and leave the burden of maintaining stability to her eventual successor, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

He’d wanted to prolong the ceremony, get as much of the drama and suspense out of the situation as possible.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

It prolongs an earlier easing of sanctions that expired on April 11.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

“To deny that only prolongs the situation and puts off any way of reckoning with it. We have to face it in order to understand that it’s within our human nature.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

Though the effect was strong, platelet factor 4 won't be a silver bullet that reverses the aging of all tissues and prolongs the lifespan of elderly human patients alone, Pinho said.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025

It’s not the phone itself causing problems, of course, but the fact that it often prolongs a visit to the toilet.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025

They caution us that while waiting for sponsors many refugees get married and have children, and each time that happens new paperwork must be drawn up, which prolongs their stay.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

My children’s faces, whenever they asked if the sailors were OK, made me wonder how reassured those stories really made them feel during prolonged separations.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

The Marin County Sheriff’s Office coroner’s division identified him as Daniel Zhengyu Qin, 35, of San Jose, adding that he died “despite prolonged resuscitative efforts.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

You can either self-insure and set aside enough money for a prolonged period of care, buy traditional long-term-care insurance, or decide upon some kind of combination.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

The experiment did not establish lasting memory benefits, slower aging, or the safety of prolonged use in older adults.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

At length he prolonged his remark into “Pip, I do assure you this is as-TON-ishing!” and so, by degrees, became conversational and able to walk away.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

On Thursday, the World Meteorological Society issued a new El Niño forecast warning that there is a nearly 100% chance it will continue through February, prolonging its effects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Many operators now avoid the passage and send ships instead around South Africa's Cape of Good Hope, vastly prolonging the journey between Asia and Europe and driving up fuel costs and emissions.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

He wants “to build a new healthcare system from the ground up, solely optimizing for prevention of disease and prolonging healthy life using every tool, technology, piece of scientific and medical information available to us.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Cloudflare said it chose to lay off so many people at once to avoid “dragging” its reorganization across multiple quarters, which would slow it down while prolonging uncertainty for workers.

From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026

Even Bisguier, not prolonging any resentment, proclaimed Bobby Fischer as the strongest fourteen-year-old chess player who had ever lived.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady