stretch
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They have appealed for witnesses to the crash or anyone driving on that stretch of the motorway at the time to contact them.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Instead, the brash phenom who once compared himself to Mike Trout spent half a decade toiling in the minors, a difficult stretch filled with disappointment, frustration and a boatload of strikeouts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
But there are ways to stretch the conversion out over several years to minimize the tax bill, experts told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
The new service area will eventually stretch from Santa Clarita and Thousand Oaks down to San Diego in Southern California, and from Sacramento to San Jose in Northern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The trees’ crisscrossing branches stretch almost across the whole road, quieting the hum from the main street behind us.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Sure, the production has all the paraphernalia a major pop tour - big sets, plumes of smoke, inspired choreography - but there are long stretches where it's just Grande on stage with her band.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The findings suggest that long dinosaur trackways can preserve behavioral details that shorter stretches of footprints may fail to reveal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
And while alumni watched from the sideline, the Bruins connected with youth football players on the field during, incorporating them into stretches, signing autographs and taking pictures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The favorable stretches have produced much stronger average win rates and returns, as the table above shows.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Parents passed family land to their kids, and whole stretches just belonged to the Nation.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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The researchers also used Raman spectroscopy, a laser-based method that shows how atoms are being stretched or compressed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
“Many of them have been stretched into new silhouettes of the Samba, for example, into both ballerinas, into mules, into Mary Janes.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The timeline for election administrators to think through the issue before November is tight, and it poses challenges for offices that already are stretched thin preparing for other possible election-day scenarios.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
With so many staffers leaving and not being replaced, the remaining providers have often been stretched remarkably thin.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
It blew cold air down the chimney and filled the room with so much smoke that we couldn't see the stretched rope.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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Indonesia and neighbouring countries experience frequent earthquakes due to their location in the Pacific "Ring of Fire" -- an arc of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
His remarks drew an ovation from 1,500 guests at Havana’s Palace of Conventions, including delegates from Communist parties stretching from Chile to China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
“The industry’s main tool for keeping payments manageable as prices rose has been stretching the loan, not lowering the price,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Messi equalled Telmo Zarra's 251-goal mark - set in 1955 by the Athletic Club forward - with a free-kick, before breaking it and stretching it with a third.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Celia finishes stretching her calves and juts her hips to one side to stretch her hip flexors, and then she squints at something behind me.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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