stretch
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5.5
- noun
- /strɛtʃ/
- Has dealing with COVID been the most difficult stretch for you in your entire film career?
- a long stretch
- a stretch of time
- years at a stretch
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Watch on YouTubeIt was, it was a tough stretch, pun intended.
- It was, it was a tough stretch, pun intended.
- Blackouts can include long stretches of time like you can.
- You know, what was your free stretch for a robbery?
- She about four years left on my stretch before I went home from prison.
- There's going to be long stretches of time where it leads the world.
Examples
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A week or two weeks at a stretch, any longer and my retreat becomes tainted with wistfulness.
Fiction book (1990) -
And a year is twelve months; it's a considerable stretch of time.
Fiction book (2000) -
OK, so we're getting to the home stretch and we are.
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Before we go for the home stretch and solve these problems.
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So that was that stretch where I didn't work for three years.
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At least during this stretch, he'd try to leave it alone.
Fiction book (1997) -
But still, there were long stretches of the Middle Ages where nothing changed.
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I think I felt the last time I felt burnt out was the last stretch of that dissertation.
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Having achieved more than so many men before her, Trudy Ederle now attempts the final stretch of the swim.
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After a long stretch of working nights, she finally took a break to recharge.
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5.0
A short fixed time spent doing a job
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Etymology
Stretch comes from the old English streccan meaning 'to make long'. People used the idea of a long length for time too, so a long period of doing something is called a stretch.