Thesaurus / stretch
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Graham is being far outspent by Harrison, who has raised a stunning $29 million and has about $10 million for the final stretch.
TRUMP CONTRADICTS CDC DIRECTOR ON VACCINE; BIDEN SAYS AMERICANS SHOULDN’T TRUST TRUMPCOLBY ITKOWITZ, FELICIA SONMEZ, JOHN WAGNERSEPTEMBER 16, 2020WASHINGTON POSTNow, the season starts around May and routinely extends to November—sometimes even stretching to December.
WEST COAST WILDFIRE SMOKE IS VISIBLE FROM OUTER SPACEMARÍA PAULA RUBIANO A.SEPTEMBER 16, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEIf it’s fairly straight, hamstring stretches are going to give you the best benefit.
THE BEST THING FOR BACK PAIN IS ACTUALLY MORE MOVEMENTSARA CHODOSHSEPTEMBER 16, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEDemocratic leaders stand by that proposal to bring back the weekly $600 enhanced unemployment benefit—which stretched from late March to late July.
THE FEDERAL $300 UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT IS SET TO EXPIRE. WILL THERE BE A REPLACEMENT?LANCE LAMBERTSEPTEMBER 14, 2020FORTUNESome of the Nats’ stretch-run problems aren’t fixable, either.
THE NATIONALS ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIMENEIL PAINE (NEIL.PAINE@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)SEPTEMBER 11, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTDuring the test, each person wore a stretch cap with electrodes that recorded activity in different parts of the brain.
A SECRET OF SCIENCE: MISTAKES BOOST UNDERSTANDINGRACHEL KEHOESEPTEMBER 10, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSIt might be a slight stretch to say the Rockets can’t go all the way unless this group coalesces on both ends, but they almost certainly won’t reach their ceiling.
THE ROCKETS’ NEW STARTING LINEUP IS JUST SCRATCHING THE SURFACE OF ITS POTENTIALMICHAEL PINASEPTEMBER 8, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTA local outlet reported its conveyor belts would stretch farther than 10 miles if laid in a straight line.
THAT WHOLE FOODS IS AN AMAZON WAREHOUSE; GET USED TO ITCONNIE LOIZOSSEPTEMBER 4, 2020TECHCRUNCHAlso, the nature of what I was doing put me in these situations where I was really stretching myself.
INSIDE AN FKT ATTEMPT ON THE APPALACHIAN TRAILMARTIN FRITZ HUBERSEPTEMBER 3, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEHe couldn’t see how stretched the hospital was in mid-April, as the coronavirus surged through the city and flooded its intensive care unit to capacity.
SENT HOME TO DIEBY ANNIE WALDMAN AND JOSHUA KAPLANSEPTEMBER 2, 2020PROPUBLICAWORDS RELATED TO STRETCH
- amplifying
- blowing out of proportion
- boasting
- boosting
- bragging
- building up
- caricaturing
- coloring
- cooking up
- corrupting
- distorting
- embroidering
- emphasizing
- enlarging
- exalting
- expanding
- fabricating
- falsifying
- fudging
- going to extremes
- heightening
- hiking
- hyperbolizing
- inflating
- intensifying
- loud talk
- lying
- lying it on thick
- magnifying
- making too much of
- misquoting
- misreporting
- misrepresenting
- overdoing
- overdrawing
- overemphasizing
- overestimating
- padding
- pretty up
- puffing
- putting on
- pyramiding
- romancing
- romanticizing
- scamming
- stretching
- upping
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- baloney
- boasting
- caricature
- coloring
- crock
- elaboration
- embroidery
- emphasis
- enlargement
- exaltation
- excess
- extravagance
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- hogwash
- hyperbole
- inflation
- jazz
- line
- magnification
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- overemphasis
- overestimation
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- rant
- romance
- stretch
- tall story
- untruth
- whopper
- yarn
- aggrandize
- amplify
- beef up
- bloat
- blow up
- bolster
- broaden
- bulk up
- burgeon
- detail
- develop
- diffuse
- dilate
- distend
- elaborate
- embellish
- enlarge
- explicate
- fan out
- fatten
- fill out
- grow
- heighten
- hike
- increase
- inflate
- lengthen
- magnify
- mount
- multiply
- mushroom
- open
- open out
- outspread
- pad
- piggyback
- prolong
- protract
- puff up
- pyramid
- slap on
- soup up
- spread
- spread out
- stretch
- stretch out
- swell
- tack on
- thicken
- unfold
- unfurl
- unravel
- unroll
- upsurge
- wax
- widen
- add to
- aggrandize
- amplify
- augment
- beef up
- boost
- broaden
- carry on
- continue
- crane
- develop
- dilate
- drag one's feet
- drag out
- draw
- draw out
- elongate
- enhance
- enlarge
- expand
- fan out
- go on
- heighten
- increase
- last
- lengthen
- let out
- magnify
- mantle
- multiply
- open
- pad
- prolong
- prolongate
- protract
- run on
- spin out
- spread
- spread out
- stall
- stretch
- string out
- supplement
- take
- unfold
- unfurl
- unroll
- widen
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