1
as in expansion
a wide space or area
vowed that he would journey the lengths of the earth to find her
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as in distance
the space or amount of space between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects
the length of a professional tennis court is 78 feet from baseline to baseline
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Recent Examples of length
Starship has also been contracted by NASA as the lunar lander for Artemis 3, which is currently slated for 2027 — one year short of Isaacman's potential administrative tenure at the space agency, should he be confirmed and remain the length of Trump's term.
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Josh Dinner, Space.com, 29 Apr. 2025
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Users still can't control the number of speakers, their demographic characteristics, accents, or conversation length.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
The company pledged to reduce the frequency and length of power interruptions, but the outages persisted.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
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Josh Dinner, Space.com, 29 Apr. 2025
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Users still can't control the number of speakers, their demographic characteristics, accents, or conversation length.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
The company pledged to reduce the frequency and length of power interruptions, but the outages persisted.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for length
Noun
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Republicans have been remarkably cavalier about the impact of cutting the expansion match.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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When the expansion Jags, with Boselli as a rookie left tackle, began playing in 1995, nobody expected much.—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Maintain a safe distance from water, wet items, and metal objects.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Apr. 2025
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One of the most significant breakthroughs in diagnostics has been the shift toward bringing testing closer to people, reducing barriers like distance, time, and lack of privacy.—
Jennifer Lotito,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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That’s much lower than in a lab-grade vacuum, yet across vast expanses of space, even very low particle densities can add up, so Barnard 68’s tenuous material is still enough to absorb essentially all the light that would otherwise just pass through.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
25 Apr. 2025
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Spanning northwest New Jersey, the district is a mix of rural expanses with rolling hills and river towns, with dense urban pockets en route to New York.—
Savannah Kuchar,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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Such relentless rotations were a nightmare for Forest’s first-half 4-4-2 approach, unable to simultaneously cover the width of the full-backs and darting movements in midfield.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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The mature width of a hydrangea can range from 2 to 6 feet.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
25 Apr. 2025
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From Lowcountry retreats in South Carolina to North Carolina’s serene Atlantic stretches to Florida’s world-famous blue-green waters, the options are endless.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
26 Apr. 2025
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Williams, in particular, has had great stretches, lining up mostly in the slot.—
Doug Haller,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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Your own career spans a wide breadth of American music.—
Shamira Ibrahim,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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Unlike most bias-mitigation efforts that prioritize English, this dataset is malleable, with human translations for testing a wider breadth of languages and cultures.—
Reece Rogers,
Wired News,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Length.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/length. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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