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prolonged
adjective as in extended
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adjective as in drawn-out
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The outage is a symptom of Zimbabwe’s ongoing crisis, with daily 12-hour blackouts driven by a prolonged drought that is crippling energy generation at the Kariba Dam, the country’s main power source.
“The likelihood, if you’ve got Parkinson’s disease, your ending is going to be prolonged and very unpleasant,” he tells BBC News.
The authors point out that not all effects of climate change are reversible, like flora and fauna lost to rapid and prolonged environmental change.
The videos show pupils, many of whom were non-verbal, clearly in acute distress, and many are seen to injure themselves for prolonged periods.
For people with developmental disabilities, like Mills, that prolonged arrival means more time confined to hospitals and nursing homes.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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