extents

noun

plural of extent
1
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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2
as in expanses
a wide space or area the seemingly endless extent of the windswept prairies

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3
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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4
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 Our politics, cultures, and wars manipulated by America to varying extents. — Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2026 Most people care about all of those things, to different extents. — Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2026 Among the concert recordings are three full concerts being released for the very first time and several more full recordings of shows that have been excerpted, to varying extents, for past releases. — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extents
  1. limits
  2. expanses
  3. scopes
  4. dimensions
  5. limitations
  6. expansions
  7. realms
  8. sizes
Noun
  • Whether lawmakers accept those limits will help determine how much authority the federal government gains over advanced AI systems.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • France, unlike the United States, places strict limits on campaign spending, but money still shapes the broader political ecosystem.
    — Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of limits
Noun
  • Entrepreneur Emma Grede attributed her ability to keep brands relevant to her complete assuredness in her intuition, which was honed in the expanses of her triumphs—and failures.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Released three years after the similarly freewheeling Nekkuja, the album bubbles over with interdimensional ambition and zigzagging ideas, anchored by her ability to command bewildering expanses of melody and form.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of expanses
Noun
  • Confining Employees To Rigid Roles As a business grows, team members with rigid, constrained scopes may stop working or supporting others outside their existing scope.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • These involve a cancer screening test, followed by a surgical procedure involving robotic scopes.
    — Tara Molina, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of scopes
Noun
  • Chair44 isn’t exactly the first example of such a monotile in three dimensions, according to Kaplan, a computer scientist whose research focuses on the intersection of mathematics and art.
    — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The recently launched Coleman Snap 'N Go collapsible cooler is another slim storage solution, but its taller dimensions when set up into cooler mode won't help with car camping in the same way the Ice Box does.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of dimensions
Noun
  • None of it feels remotely tied to the zeitgeist, instead showing an artist galvanized by their own out-there proclivities and exhilarated by the limitations of whatever ramshackle gear might be lying around a home studio.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Ukraine’s Armed Forces learned about the Starshield terminals’ speed limitations from SpaceX customer support after filing a complaint about operational issues, and SpaceX provided no prior warning, according to the source.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of limitations
Noun
  • Over the past 10 years, Veronica Beard saw a period of significant growth, with a quick succession of store openings, product category launches and expansions.
    — Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Just as significant, Hello has continued to keep the game vibrant with a constant stream of free expansions, including the recent Cosmos update in September, which fleshed out the vast expanse of space with more things to explore.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of expansions
Noun
  • Dante populated his realms of Hell and Purgatory with figures, monsters and moral frameworks borrowed directly from classical Greek and Roman myths.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • His lack of experience in the realms of ballet, classical music, opera, and jazz, formerly the center’s mainstays, have concerned some onlookers.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of realms
Noun
  • The flexible hydrogel could allow the battery to conform to different pipeline shapes and sizes.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Inspired by the rounded shapes of water droplets, the 22-piece collection features clusters of natural diamonds in varying sizes, set across sculptural surfaces of 14-karat yellow gold.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2026
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“Extents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extents. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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