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• v  lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
• s  relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
  protracted negotiations

• The clam species, the Arctica Atlantica, is particularly long lived it has been known to survive some 200 and 300 years and this particular specimen spent its protracted .
• The soldiers stationed at Observation Post Restrepo, overlooking the Korengal Valley, are engaged in protracted battle against a toxic mix of local insurgents, Taliban leaders .
• All were charged with the protracted death by torture of pretty Sylvia Marie Likens, 16, who with her younger sister Jenny had boarded in the Baniszewski home.

• prolong
• protract
• extend
• draw out
• drawn-out
• extended
• lengthy
• prolonged

News & Articles

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• US offers Syrian rebels 'military support'
  The United States and its allies have concluded that the government of Bashar Assad has used chemical weapons in Syria's protracted civil war, leading President Barack Obama to broaden aid — including military support — to opposition groups.
  June 14, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Chelsea to sign Leverkusen's German Schuerrle
  Germany forward Andre Schuerrle is close to completing his protracted switch from Bayer Leverkusen to Chelsea, in what would be Jose Mourinho's first signing since returning as manager of the Premier League club.
  June 13, 2013 - Sports Illustrated
• Chelsea set to sign Germany's Andre Schuerrle from Leverkusen
  Germany forward Andre Schuerrle is close to completing his protracted switch from Bayer Leverkusen to Chelsea, in what would be Jose Mourinho's first signing since returning as manager of the Premier League club.
  June 13, 2013 - Sports Illustrated

Quotes

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• Ben Bernanke in Reuters UK
  With the economy likely to be weak for several quarters, and with some risk of a protracted slowdown, consideration of a fiscal package by the Congress at this juncture seems appropriate,Bernanke said in prepared remarks for delivery to a...
• John Gieve in 940 News
  The unavoidable correction after the credit boom is proving protracted and difficult,Deputy Governor John Gieve said in the report. "However the pricing of risk in credit markets seems to have swung from being unsustainably low last summer...
• Steve Ballmer in International Herald Tribune
  In a letter to Yang sent Saturday afternoon, Ballmer wrote: "It is clear to me that it is not sensible for Microsoft to take our offer directly to your shareholders. This approach would necessarily involve a protracted proxy contest."