prolonged
Example Sentences
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“We are making these changes now because making smaller, repeated cuts or dragging a reorganization out over multiple quarters creates prolonged emotional uncertainty for employees and stalls our ability to build,” the email said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
What changed was the removal of the one obvious threat to the trade: a prolonged energy and feedstock squeeze severe enough to hit industrial output.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
People can catch it from someone that they spend prolonged time with in close physical proximity.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
As the conflict drags on, crude will remain on track for new highs, although a prolonged energy shock raises demand destruction risks “that could ultimately pull the rug from under crude’s advance,” he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
Wrapped in her prolonged mourning for Elisha, she was unaware of how much the Civil War had changed the country.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Vocabulary lists containing prolonged
The Call of the Wild
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Britain's Finest Hour Speech - Winston Churchill (1940)
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