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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
Fortunately for him, he’s never needed to go to such lengths with his own teams.
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Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Traverse Bay Farms Similar to Blair's leasing experience, many small business owners are scoring more favorable terms, including flexible lease lengths, partial fit-outs, and even rent-free periods in some cases, according to Aird.
—Kevin Williams, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
With 33 color options and four different inseam lengths, the variety of pants ensures a perfect pair for every type of traveler.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
The roomy, relaxed style just launched at Target in four washes, three lengths, and sizes 00 through 30.
—Ali Faccenda, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
These capabilities make standard hair diffusers better equipped for various hair textures, lengths, and thicknesses.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
Fortunately, Quince offers dozens of denim jean options in lengths and styles suitable for shoppers of a wide range of heights.
—Jacqueline Tempera, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2025
The brand offers individual cluster lashes in a wide range of styles and lengths, which are unbelievably natural and lightweight.
—Jailynn Taylor, Allure, 25 Sep. 2025
Allow plenty of room for this native to spread as its vines can reach lengths of 20 to 30 feet.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lengths
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Vast expanses of aluminum panels and budget glass, slabs that look like they were drawn with a hacksaw, façades checkered with air conditioners, stretches of dead street frontage—the whole neighborhood looks like a first draft.—
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On the northern shore, Sarakiniko serves as a particular highlight thanks to its dramatic appearance, with vast expanses of bone-white rock stretching across its shoreline.—
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On average, as confirmed for thousands upon thousands of galaxies at all different distances, the farther away a galaxy is from us, the greater the amount its light is redshifted.—
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These two dwarf galaxies orbit the Milky Way at distances of 163,000 and 200,000 light-years, respectively, moving through our galaxy's outer halo of hot gas not too dissimilar, but on a much smaller scale, from the Virgo Cluster's halo of hot gas.—
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The forecast factors in expansions to Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, investments in AI development, and expected energy savings.—
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Other recent big-city brand expansions to Nashville include Pastis and Craig's.—
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Leaf Raking Leaf rakes can be plastic or metal, with different widths.—
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Mapping means travelers with disabilities measure more than 200 data points, such as bed heights or doorway widths, since accessibility is far from one-size-fits-all, but rather that various needs can be met.—
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Trucks will be prohibited along stretches of major roads that pass through residential areas, including Livernois, Dragoon, Clark, Scotten and West Grand Boulevard, as well as on all residential streets in that area.—
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Once those long reads are obtained, powerful bioinformatics software is used to build longer stretches of contiguous sequence by overlapping reads that share the same sequence of bases.—
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“Lengths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lengths. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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