OUTSTRETCHING Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

outstretching

verb

present participle of outstretch

as in extending

to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area the dog had outstretched his legs and was lying across the width of the doorway

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as in lengthening

to make longer having outstretched our lunch break beyond all reason, we reluctantly headed back to work

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Dimitris Ampatzidis, maritime risk and compliance manager at Kpler, said the attacks underscored Iran's continuing ability to threaten commercial vessels, with the risks extending beyond oil and gas transportation.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
For most of my career, accelerating a road map usually meant adding people, extending timelines or reducing scope.

— Luis Aburto, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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Cryptographers responded by lengthening the keys, and 2,048 bits is now considered the minimum.

— Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
The Lorenzo can be worn two ways, with or without a fine leather strap threaded through the gold Eye of the Needle, which can be buckled across the foot to create a leg-lengthening effect.

— Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026

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Note the yellow band—interest on the national debt—which is expanding fast.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
The agreement comes as electricity demand rises across the United States, driven partly by expanding data centers, manufacturing and electrification.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

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Erected on a hillside in 1938, Fallingwater appeared as a matrix of rectangles with low and flat horizontal lines stretching across the planes of the house.

— Wendy S. Walters, Architectural Digest, 12 Oct. 2026
Blue crabs and crawfish are sourced from Louisiana, while shellfish such as oysters, Manila clams and cherrystone clams arrive from waters stretching from the East Coast to Asia.

— Sara Rosenthal, Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of stretching

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Velly Pizza is also opening a second location in the Natomas area.

— Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Among the recommendations is a change that would change the village’s single-family residential districts to neighborhood residential districts, potentially opening them up to multi-unit housing.

— Cam'ron Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026

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