stretched
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Caland worked constantly: on stretched canvas, on fabric folded in her lap, on a children’s menu, on the wall of her kitchen, or the sleeve of her smock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
"It's kind of intensifying people's nervous systems which are already kind of stretched post Covid," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
UBS worries management could be stretched by building and ramping up across two countries—Cambodia and Australia—at the same time, and that consensus expectations are too high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The debris pattern stretched across hundreds of pixels and immediately stood out from everything around it.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Sick call stretched around the side of the hospital, but we walked straight through the door and into a ward at the rear.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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