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• v  lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
  We prolonged our stay
• v  lengthen or extend in duration or space
• s  relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
  a prolonged and bitter struggle
• s  drawn out or made longer spatially
  a prolonged black line across the page

• When Reuther and three other officials arrived at the gate, Ford company police charged at them and delivered a brutal, prolonged beating.
• The prolonged war effort is, not surprisingly, giving Saudi Arabia's rulers the jitters.
• The memo says the lawmakers were told about six CIA interrogation techniques, including prolonged sleep deprivation.

• prolong
• protract
• extend
• draw out
• sustain
• keep up
• drawn-out
• extended
• lengthy
• protracted
• elongated
• lengthened

News & Articles

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• Christian college expels lesbian, charges tuition
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Danielle Powell was going through a hard time in the spring of 2011, just months away from graduating from a conservative Christian college in Nebraska. She had fallen in love with another woman, a strictly forbidden relationship at a school where even prolonged hugs were banned.
  June 15, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Medici Children Suffered From Rickets
  The Medici children were malnourished and led a prolonged indoor life, a new study finds. Continue reading ?
  June 14, 2013 - Discovery News
• Clippers denied permission to talk to Rivers
  Doc Rivers' prolonged inner debate over whether to return to the Celtics continues to generate an interesting, if somewhat unintentional, market. According to a source, Celtics president Danny Ainge denied a request from the Clippers to talk to Rivers earlier this week. As reported in today's Herald, the Celtics coach is now said to be open to other coaching possibilities after initially saying ...
  June 14, 2013 - Boston Herald

Quotes

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• Ayad Allawi in Las Vegas Sun
  Although we in the United States are taking many extraordinary measures to ease the crisis, we are not pursuing policies that would limit the flow of goods, services or capital, as such measures would only intensify the risks of a prolonged... Henry Paulson http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFunf9jqAG4PIOWvnV9rZ6KE6zAlQ FOXNews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Oct12/0,4670,FinancialMeltdown,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGncV66xOgUqvLTABmPqZ3XpeLrgg Oct 12, 2008 78038 105034 prolonged After the hourlong, closed-door talk, Allawi said that Biden offered no specific proposals to end the impasse but there was an interest in Iraq's stability, and that the forming of the government should not be prolonged."
• Ben Bernanke in BBC News
  As Mr Bernanke told the symposium: "Further tightening of credit conditions, if sustained, would increase the risk that the current weakness in housing could be deeper or more prolonged than previously expected.'"