as in measuring
to find out the size, extent, or amount of
tried to span the distance between the two trees by eye alone
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Recent Examples of spanning
Mirren’s credits include The Queen, The Madness of King George, Red, the Fast & Furious franchise, Gosford Park, Trumbo and Hitchcock, among many others, and her decades-spanning career have earned her various accolades such as an Oscar, five Emmys, SAG, BAFTA and a Tony Award.
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Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
Paramount+ will stream live coverage of the full PBR Unleash The Beast, a competition spanning five months in 19 cities across 17 states.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
Under the agreement, Paramount+ will stream live coverage of the full PBR Unleash the Beast series, spanning five months in 19 cities across 17 states.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025
Those three games were played in the NCAA Tournament spanning the years 2008-2013.
—Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
The platform’s catalogue includes more than 1 million luxury items, ranging from under $100 to more than $1,000, spanning everyday essentials to high-end pieces.
—Andre Claudio, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2025
In March, an outage spanning an entire weekend locked tens of thousands of people out of Outlook and other Microsoft 365 programs.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2025
The meta-analysis, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association, reviewed 155 studies spanning decades and found that viral infections can raise the risk of heart disease both immediately after an infection and over the long term.
—Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
From Aldean’s career-spanning retrospective to Andrews’ breakthrough, the results underscore country’s constant evolution, where established stars and newcomers share the same scoreboards.
—Russ Penuell, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2025
Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
Paramount+ will stream live coverage of the full PBR Unleash The Beast, a competition spanning five months in 19 cities across 17 states.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
Under the agreement, Paramount+ will stream live coverage of the full PBR Unleash the Beast series, spanning five months in 19 cities across 17 states.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025
Those three games were played in the NCAA Tournament spanning the years 2008-2013.
—Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
The platform’s catalogue includes more than 1 million luxury items, ranging from under $100 to more than $1,000, spanning everyday essentials to high-end pieces.
—Andre Claudio, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2025
In March, an outage spanning an entire weekend locked tens of thousands of people out of Outlook and other Microsoft 365 programs.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2025
The meta-analysis, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association, reviewed 155 studies spanning decades and found that viral infections can raise the risk of heart disease both immediately after an infection and over the long term.
—Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
From Aldean’s career-spanning retrospective to Andrews’ breakthrough, the results underscore country’s constant evolution, where established stars and newcomers share the same scoreboards.
—Russ Penuell, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spanning
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That stage is a silo-like cylinder with a tapered nose cone, measuring 165 feet tall, and weighing more than 200,000 pounds.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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Researchers at the New York Fed said measuring student loan delinquencies is still complicated by the fact that payments were on pause for four years during the pandemic.—
Elizabeth Schulze,
ABC News,
5 Nov. 2025
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Having spent decades studying the well-being of individuals, Lyubomirsky said gauging the happiness of entire countries comes with challenges.—
Lindsey Leake,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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Creating a Bureau of Motion Pictures, Roosevelt also transformed part of the White House’s East Wing in order to screen films as a way of gauging the national mood.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Spanning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spanning. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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