extension
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Digger’s very bad day — and, by extension, humankind’s — is actually a stage play within the film called “Fossil Fools.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
"The guilt is there also because whenever you start minding, the families nearly become an extension of your family, so you're feeling for them."
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
The two sides agreed a modest two-month extension to the existing trade detente, but that still leaves “issues over tariffs, agricultural purchases, rare earths, and technology restrictions unresolved,” said Chan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The summit produced no major policy announcements on flashpoints like artificial intelligence, Taiwan or trade, apart from a two-month extension of a tariff truce between the world's two largest economies.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
The radio serials were like an extension of the comics, and Mama liked to listen to them with me.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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Hanle has few hotels and no resorts, so visitors mostly stay in family-run homestays, often extensions of their homes.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
The settlement would commit the agency to funding the grants through their remaining terms, including eligible extensions, as long as recipients meet their grant requirements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Axons are the long extensions that allow neurons to transmit electrical signals to other cells.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
They see only limited sensitivity to interest-rate moves, little value being ascribed to concession extensions, and an 8.7% yield.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
At this point the two cars had become exactly what cars are supposed to be; they were extensions of their owners.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 6
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