Synonyms for stretching
stretch·ing

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1. stretchingnoun

   act of expanding by lengthening or widening

   Synonyms:
   stretch

2. stretch, stretchingnoun

   exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent

   Synonyms:
   stint, reach, stretchiness, stretch, stretchability, reaching

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1. • Exercise
   • Expansion

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1. stretchingnoun

   Synonyms:
   tension, distension, extension, porrection, pandiculation, intension

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1. List of paraphrases for "stretching":

   stretch, extending

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1. Pat Schloss:

   It's really helpful in stretching our concept of what is the human microbiome.

2. German Efromovich:

   The initial plan was to renew the entire fleet for 2024, starting in 2017, what we're viewing now...is stretching the start of this process out to 2019-2020.

3. Anthony Fauci:

   You can make an argument, and some people are, about stretching out the doses by giving a single dose across the board, and hoping you’re going to get the second dose in time to give to individuals.

4. Scott Evans:

   I think the most important takeaway is that we now have a record stretching back 550 million years, demonstrating that animals respond to changing environmental conditions, often resulting in major extinction events, even though the causes of today’s environmental change and responses of animals may be different, the fact that such change in the past has been shown over and over again to lead to major extinction events is a crucial one when considering what actions we should take to mitigate the course of our current human driven climate change.

5. Karen VanAusdal:

   Routines and rituals can be very comforting and useful, i believe in keeping them and then stretching one piece( of them) to add in something new, while allowing the kid the agency and power to decide if they want to do it.