prolonged
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There was a stint during the Covid-19 pandemic when this cohort was out of work at higher rates, and a more prolonged stretch as the U.S. climbed out of the recession in 2008 and 2009.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
The findings offer one of the clearest pictures yet of what prolonged fasting does inside the human body at a molecular level.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2026
Oil futures posted back-to-back gains as the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz started to raise concerns about falling global inventories.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
Other recent studies on prolonged fasting have also found that the body enters a deep ketogenic state during multi day fasts, dramatically changing how cells use fuel.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2026
The guitar came free of the stone with a prolonged metallic shhingggg!
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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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