extensions
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After losing last season’s NFC championship game, the team quickly signed McVay and Snead — who were entering the final years of their contracts — to long-term extensions.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
Rising demand for agricultural loans, extensions and renewals can boost revenue from interest for lenders.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
As a result of intense lobbying by the branded pharmaceutical industry, patent-term extensions were born in the U.S. in the early 1980s under what is now more commonly known as the Hatch-Waxman Act.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
They were following up on earlier work showing that dendrites, the branch-like extensions of neurons, process signals differently depending on their location.
From Science Daily • May 6, 2026
It followed all the nooks, all the extensions; you had to squeeze past shrubs, you went under two ivy-covered arches and through a rusted gate.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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