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She took part in the protracted negotiations.protracted = long
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Let's not needlessly protract this conflict.protract = prolong (make longer)
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Finally, there was an end to the protracted conflict.protracted = long
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The general's shattered hip—and all of the ensuing complications, the pneumonia, blood poisoning, the protracted stay at the nursing home—ended Khala Jamila's long-running soliloquies about her own health. (source)protracted = long in duration
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An hour later I was in the man box, and Shawn and Luke were standing on either end of a beam, twenty feet in the air. I brushed the lever lightly, listening as the hydraulic cylinders hissed softly to protract. (source)protract = extend
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Another pause, more protracted, and then — "Without Harry Potter?" breathed the second voice softly. (source)protracted = long in duration
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I did not tell the doctor of my decision—that my death should not be a slow and protracted one as it would be in the course of nature. (source)protracted = long in duration
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The delicate-handed gentleman was a match for the workman in everything but strength, and Arthur's skill enabled him to protract the struggle for some long moments.† (source)
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She finally complied out of fear of being charged with protracting the public calamities and endangering the outcome of the war.† (source)
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By the quantity of provision which I had consumed, I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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The first labor is usually protracted. (source)protracted = long-lasting
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Lily, however, was not among them, and her absence served to protract the effect she had produced on Selden: it would have broken the spell to see her too soon in the surroundings from which accident had so happily detached her.† (source)
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Every now and then, as his companion looked up at him, she reminded him of an ancient tabby cat, protracting the enjoyment of a dish of milk.† (source)
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But I feel mine is not the existence to be long protracted under an Indian sun. (source)protracted = long in duration
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be thy care; Pallas and I, by all that gods can bind, Have sworn destruction to the Trojan kind; Not even an instant to protract their fate, Or save one member of the sinking state; Till her last flame be quench'd with her last gore, And even her crumbling ruins are no more.† (source)
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"My father," he said, protracting the words with relish, "was such a refined man, sensitive equally in body and soul!† (source)
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