protracts

present tense third-person singular of protract

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Verb
  • While ChatGPT may initially recommend suicide hotlines, the AI could later give harmful answers as the conversation lengthens.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Kneeling Lunge with Side Bend This move lengthens your iliopsoas, a muscle group that helps flex the hips and connects to the lower back.
    Jenny McCoy, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Though funding for aid programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, has been approved for October, said Emily Weikert Bryant, executive director of Feeding Indiana's Hungry, the program may be in trouble if the shutdown extends beyond that month.
    Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 1 Oct. 2025
  • From there, Hawes extends his arms and drives the defensive end out of contention for making the play.
    Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Baz’s intelligence also stretches to the sense that Knight will go back to Bond’s beginnings as a Royal Navy Commander before he was recruited by MI6, the UK’s foreign intelligence agency, and chart how Bond attained 007 status.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Hundreds of people looking to emigrate to the United States sit inside the facility’s walls in limbo, waiting for a legal process that often stretches on for weeks, months or even years.
    Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Downy brome, an invasive weed, infiltrates grassland and increases wildfire risk in the Great Basin region.
    Pam Marrone, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, your brain increases melatonin production in response to darkness.
    Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Since wigs also naturally shed with brushing, washing, and styling, supplementing with clip-ins right from the start helps maintain a fuller look and prolongs the life of the unit.
    Noel Cymone Walker, StyleCaster, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Neither option is an easy deliverable that prolongs Zelensky’s position or leaves Ukraine strong.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Protracts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/protracts. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.

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