extended

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It has been extended for a third consecutive day for the first time, impacting millions of people in London and parts of south-eastern England until 21:00 on Friday.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

Backed by development banks like the World Bank and private investors, the sector has since extended hundreds of billions of loans to poor borrowers around the globe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

Since then, he and roughly 170,000 other users have been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and related cancers associated with extended exposure to glyphosate, Roundup’s key ingredient and a probable carcinogen.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2026

Global oil prices, meanwhile, extended their long monthly retreat in overnight trading, and changed hands at levels last seen prior to the first U.S. attacks on Iran on Feb. 28.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

His wife’s extended English family of course wondered where he had been, and he tried to explain.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis