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- vowed that he would journey the lengths of the earth to find her
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- the length of a professional tennis court is 78 feet from baseline to baseline
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“Length.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/length. Accessed 20 May. 2022.
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