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stretched
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Princeton's WordNet
stretchedadjective
(of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching
"well-stretched muscles are less susceptible to injury"
stretchedadjective
extended or spread over a wide area or distance
"broad fields lay stretched on both sides of us"
Webster Dictionary
Stretched
of Stretch
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'stretched' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4415
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of stretched in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of stretched in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of stretched in a Sentence
Rising production from Middle East Gulf countries and Russia, welcome though it is, comes at the expense of the world's spare capacity cushion, which might be stretched to the limit, this vulnerability currently underpins oil prices and seems likely to continue doing so.
It must be positive, it must be practical and it must make them and their children safer from abuse. What is promised on paper must be fully resourced to be effective in protecting those affected by domestic violence. We are concerned that an already over-stretched system will see an increase in demand when the new provisions commence, women must feel change quickly.
In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how, let me tell you something -- the only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity.
It is a tense time around elections and security forces are already stretched thin, displaced people are already struggling for food, access to clean water and healthcare facilities.
Teams are stretched thin. People are frustrated. People are very tired, we are down a significant number of positions here, because we just don't have enough nurses that we can recruit to come here and help us to take care of patients.
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