Thesaurus results for EXTENTS

extents

noun

plural of extent

as in limits

a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go the coach exceeded the extent of his authority by exempting some of the players from the requirement

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as in expanses

a wide space or area the seemingly endless extent of the windswept prairies

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as in scopes

an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends the extent of this criminal investigation has widened considerably since it began

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as in dimensions

the total amount of measurable space or surface occupied by something looking at the extent of the stain on my shirt, you might think that I had spilled a gallon of coffee

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Recent Examples of extents Hunt, Avantika, and Angus are especially good as overgrown kids trying, to varying extents, to hide their softness beneath ambition. —

Judy Berman, Time, 1 June 2026 Throughout its history the company has gone through the ebbs and flows of the jewelry sector, impacted to various extents by wars, macroeconomic volatility and geopolitical disruption. —

Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 27 May 2026 But outfielders Jakob Marsee and Owen Caissie and catcher Agustin Ramirez have struggled to various extents. —

Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026 Meanwhile, cannabis has been legalized to varying extents in many states. —

Lucy Xiaolu Wang, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2026 Because of this individual variability, losing excess body weight can affect blood pressure to different extents in different people. —

Karen Berger, Verywell Health, 25 Feb. 2026 Other agencies impacted to varying extents include the Coast Guard and Secret Service. —

Jared Gans, The Hill, 13 Feb. 2026 Additional states including Florida, Kansas, Indiana, Maryland, Utah, Illinois, and New York, have considered (to differing extents) the idea of updating their maps, Reuters reported. —

Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025 The characters are all based, to different extents, on real people. —

Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025

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Noun

While many countries have limits on immigration, none has ever voted to limit its population, Swiss experts say.

— Jamey Keaten, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
Villanova would toss the Owls aside by 20 for its 22nd consecutive win against their Philly opponents, a walkover victory that barely moved the needle anywhere outside of the city limits.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 June 2026