STRETCHED (OUT) Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

stretched (out)

verb

past tense of stretch (out)

as in expanded

to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area you can't stretch out your legs to the point where you're blocking the aisle

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Through the development and community adoption of RPO, RoboParty expanded its technical capabilities to cover core actuators, robot bodies, motion control, dexterous manipulation and robotics software systems.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
Trump has expanded that all around the room, stacking the walls with portraits including those of George Washington, Andrew Jackson and Benjamin Franklin.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026

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High-yield corporate bonds extended a five-day rout to the lowest since April 2025, according to the iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG).

— Oliver Renick, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
After all, if the ultimate goal of a central bank is to regulate the temperature of an economy by changing the cost of credit, then the fact that credit is increasingly extended by the bond market rather than banks inevitably has consequences.

— Robin Wigglesworth, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026

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In June, the group opened a series of arena dates ahead of Turnpike Troubadours and Muscadine Bloodline.

— Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026
Sayegh, who owns the five-screen cinema in Cranford, near to New York City, will mark the centennial with a throwback screening of Padlocked, the silent film that opened the theater’s doors on November 29, 1926, with an accompanying organ player.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026

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