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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
Pop culture Instagram page Deuxmoi shared a video and photos of Eilish's visit to Beverly Hills, showcasing her long auburn lengths.
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Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 30 May 2026
Plus, petite and tall travelers can also find their perfect fits, with three different inseams lengths available, as well.
—Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2026
In contrast, nonbiological samples had a wider distribution of chain lengths.
—Gideon Yoffe, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
Styles such as shoulder-skimming layers, airy lobs, and soft shags can add movement, create fullness, and highlight bone structure without the maintenance of very short crops or extra-long lengths.
—Colleen Sullivan, InStyle, 28 May 2026
This shortens interconnect lengths, increase data speeds, reduce latency, and lower power consumption.
—Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 27 May 2026
What drove Hill to apparently go to such lengths to tip the scale?
—James Lasdun, New Yorker, 26 May 2026
In real life, her extra-long lengths are transcendent.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 22 May 2026
In Episode 7 of the final season of the series, Deborah and Ava even go to great lengths to get a real jumpsuit of Burnett’s for Deborah to wear as part of her Madison Square Garden show.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 22 May 2026
Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 30 May 2026
Plus, petite and tall travelers can also find their perfect fits, with three different inseams lengths available, as well.
—Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2026
In contrast, nonbiological samples had a wider distribution of chain lengths.
—Gideon Yoffe, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
Styles such as shoulder-skimming layers, airy lobs, and soft shags can add movement, create fullness, and highlight bone structure without the maintenance of very short crops or extra-long lengths.
—Colleen Sullivan, InStyle, 28 May 2026
This shortens interconnect lengths, increase data speeds, reduce latency, and lower power consumption.
—Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 27 May 2026
What drove Hill to apparently go to such lengths to tip the scale?
—James Lasdun, New Yorker, 26 May 2026
In real life, her extra-long lengths are transcendent.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 22 May 2026
In Episode 7 of the final season of the series, Deborah and Ava even go to great lengths to get a real jumpsuit of Burnett’s for Deborah to wear as part of her Madison Square Garden show.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 22 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lengths
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By traversing sonic ground across its 10 tracks that transports listeners from the open expanses of Montana to the Mississippi Hill Country, Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen effectively weave a tapestry that knits together a throughline between foundational Americana genres.—
Chris Barilla,
PEOPLE,
15 May 2026
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Encounters with whales, dolphins and penguins awaited; landscapes of icy expanses, towering cliffs and rolling green hills beckoned.—
Hira Humayun,
CNN Money,
6 May 2026
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To be more precise, Erdős conjectured that the number of unit distances would be n^(1+o(1)).—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
1 June 2026
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The system operates in layers, with different agents monitoring different distances and threat levels.—
Matt Viser,
The Atlantic,
1 June 2026
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Meanwhile, many museums are in serious financial straits, reckoning with the fiscal burden of optimistic expansions and unanticipated increases in operating costs.—
Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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The global SiC market is currently dominated by a small number of producers, including Wolfspeed, Coherent, and STMicroelectronics, all of which have announced multi-billion-dollar capacity expansions in recent years.—
Aditya Jadhav,
Interesting Engineering,
1 June 2026
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Others, like a rotating display, have slots of different heights and widths to store a variety of items.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
26 May 2026
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Nystrom researches the draft tirelessly, keeping a spreadsheet of data (ages, game stats, hand widths) on nearly two thousand players, and publicly ranks his top five hundred—nearly twice as many as will actually be drafted.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Which means the 4,092-square-kilometer area between the high, forested escarpment and the wide stretches of the Zambezi River is still pretty untouched.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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The allegations fit a pattern that investigators say stretches back decades.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
1 June 2026
Cite this Entry
“Lengths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lengths. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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