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as in expanses
a wide space or area
vowed that he would journey the lengths of the earth to find her
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as in distances
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 lengths
The boys begin testing this presumed interloper, going to extreme lengths to prove her wrong, despite her protestations.
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Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026
Today’s leading chips, like Apple’s A17 Pro and M4 processors built on TSMC’s 3 nm process, feature transistors with gate lengths below 15 nm.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2026
There’s a long list of washes to pick from, as well as short and long lengths.
—Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
Choose from two different lengths and several colors.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2026
In addition to imparting a fuller appearance almost instantly, the formula contains ingredients known to strengthen breakage-prone strands, ultimately allowing hair to grow to new lengths and reach its healthiest, bounciest potential.
—Sophie Wirt, InStyle, 30 Jan. 2026
Tarpon can reach lengths of up to eight feet and weigh up to 300 pounds, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
Try to remain as many as 20 car lengths behind the car ahead.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 24 Jan. 2026
Meanwhile, vitamins and glycerin further enhance water retention and hydration, boosting overall shine on your lengths.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2026
Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026
Today’s leading chips, like Apple’s A17 Pro and M4 processors built on TSMC’s 3 nm process, feature transistors with gate lengths below 15 nm.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2026
There’s a long list of washes to pick from, as well as short and long lengths.
—Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
Choose from two different lengths and several colors.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2026
In addition to imparting a fuller appearance almost instantly, the formula contains ingredients known to strengthen breakage-prone strands, ultimately allowing hair to grow to new lengths and reach its healthiest, bounciest potential.
—Sophie Wirt, InStyle, 30 Jan. 2026
Tarpon can reach lengths of up to eight feet and weigh up to 300 pounds, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
Try to remain as many as 20 car lengths behind the car ahead.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 24 Jan. 2026
Meanwhile, vitamins and glycerin further enhance water retention and hydration, boosting overall shine on your lengths.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lengths
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But wide expanses of undeveloped land offer developers the chance to build new subdivisions — prime real estate for new home buyers.—
Alexandra Glorioso,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2026
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Unmanned aircraft systems of various sizes and designs are proving resilient at performing reconnaissance over large expanses of ocean, with range and endurance exceeding human limitations.—
Zita Ballinger Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Instead of dotting the same black scrim, like pinholes in a two-dimensional theater backdrop, the stars were scattered through space at dramatically varying distances, a vast swarm of them filling every last corner of an even vaster, more numinous, and emphatically three-dimensional darkness.—
Michael Pollan,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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Next the team wants to infer the various distances of the structures that the researchers have glimpsed and to use them to make the map more dynamic and three-dimensional.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
25 Jan. 2026
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Calls for a global wealth tax, massive new aid commitments, or other significant expansions of state redistribution often rest on the premise that trade and free enterprise have failed to deliver shared gains.—
Chelsea Follett,
Oc Register,
1 Feb. 2026
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The complex of industrial structures grew steadily, with several expansions between the turn of the last century and 1955.—
Paula Allen,
San Antonio Express-News,
31 Jan. 2026
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The loafer comes in extended sizes and widths, too.—
Sian Babish,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
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The design featured an almond toe and two clear straps of differing widths that stretched across the foot, both adorned with pastel jewels.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
21 Jan. 2026
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Outside of a brief overlap in Ring of Honor in 2004, the matchup never happened, despite Punk’s runs in WWE and AEW and Styles’ defining stretches in TNA, NJPW, and eventually a decade-long run in WWE.—
Rob Wolkenbrod,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Medieval Europeans, to take one example, cleared enormous stretches of woodland—up to seventy per cent in parts of France and England by the fourteenth century—for farming, fuel, and timber.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Lengths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lengths. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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