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[strech] / strɛtʃ /




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Sheriff officials said prior to becoming a public beach, that stretch of sand was used as a training facility for the United States military.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Alvarez hit .375 with two homers and seven RBIs down the stretch to will the Astros forward.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

"This stretch of the Avon used to regularly have 30 to 40 ducks, but now it's unusual to see more than a handful," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

That’s according to the veteran stock-market strategist Jim Paulsen, who thinks tightening financial conditions may sabotage that usually fertile stretch.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

They settled far, far away on a beautiful stretch of the river at a village called Trokorpe.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

The expanded complex, which stretches across eight floors, is part shop, part exhibition space and part private club for Prada’s biggest spenders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Stanford researchers have directly observed quantum jumps of sound in a mechanical resonator for the first time, marking the latest milestone in a line of quantum physics research that stretches back more than a century.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Outside Sacramento, Calif., dozens of workers in yellow vests do stretches before going out to lay a continuous, five-mile-long fiber-optic cable under the city.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

His ability to attack space stretches the defence, while his movement without the ball creates opportunities for team-mates.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

It stands on two feet, squealing as it stretches taller and wider.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

The storm's center swirled off the coast of New Jersey, but clouds associated with the storm stretched far north across New England.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

One way to picture this is to imagine two tiny charged particles connected by a tightly stretched string.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

A growing number of prison staff have told the BBC that rules are being stretched or broken to accommodate additional inmates, potentially posing health and safety risks.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Drone attacks also shut down Saudi Arabia’s bypass pipeline earlier this month, forcing more crude through the Strait of Hormuz and onto a tanker fleet already stretched thin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

But even kalte kost would be a small price to pay, I thought as I stretched my aching body on the foul straw, for the precious books I clutched between my hands.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

It often implies bending the rules, or stretching them to the limit, rather than breaking them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Osman is well qualified to answer, having enjoyed a distinguished first-team career at Everton stretching between 2003 and 2016.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Those interactions allowed the team to control the system's energy in a way that reproduced the stretching and eventual breaking of a particle like string.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Wolfe also acquired more than 100 Ghanaian fantasy coffins — figurative sculptures, some stretching 10 to 12 feet long, also known as Fantastic Afterlife Vehicles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The U.S. fleet formed a long arc stretching from Puerto Rico to the tip of Florida, blocking the path to Cuba.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin




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