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as in limits
a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go
the coach exceeded the extent of his authority by exempting some of the players from the requirement
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as in expanses
a wide space or area
the seemingly endless extent of the windswept prairies
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as in scopes
an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends
the extent of this criminal investigation has widened considerably since it began
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as in dimensions
the total amount of measurable space or surface occupied by something
looking at the extent of the stain on my shirt, you might think that I had spilled a gallon of coffee
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Recent Examples of extents
Among the concert recordings are three full concerts being released for the very first time and several more full recordings of shows that have been excerpted, to varying extents, for past releases.
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Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
25 June 2026
Hunt, Avantika, and Angus are especially good as overgrown kids trying, to varying extents, to hide their softness beneath ambition.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
1 June 2026
Throughout its history the company has gone through the ebbs and flows of the jewelry sector, impacted to various extents by wars, macroeconomic volatility and geopolitical disruption.
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Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
27 May 2026
But outfielders Jakob Marsee and Owen Caissie and catcher Agustin Ramirez have struggled to various extents.
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Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
2 May 2026
Meanwhile, cannabis has been legalized to varying extents in many states.
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Lucy Xiaolu Wang,
The Conversation,
13 Apr. 2026
Because of this individual variability, losing excess body weight can affect blood pressure to different extents in different people.
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Karen Berger,
Verywell Health,
25 Feb. 2026
Other agencies impacted to varying extents include the Coast Guard and Secret Service.
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Jared Gans,
The Hill,
13 Feb. 2026
Additional states including Florida, Kansas, Indiana, Maryland, Utah, Illinois, and New York, have considered (to differing extents) the idea of updating their maps, Reuters reported.
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Ramon Padilla,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
25 June 2026
Hunt, Avantika, and Angus are especially good as overgrown kids trying, to varying extents, to hide their softness beneath ambition.
—
Judy Berman,
Time,
1 June 2026
Throughout its history the company has gone through the ebbs and flows of the jewelry sector, impacted to various extents by wars, macroeconomic volatility and geopolitical disruption.
—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
27 May 2026
But outfielders Jakob Marsee and Owen Caissie and catcher Agustin Ramirez have struggled to various extents.
—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
2 May 2026
Meanwhile, cannabis has been legalized to varying extents in many states.
—
Lucy Xiaolu Wang,
The Conversation,
13 Apr. 2026
Because of this individual variability, losing excess body weight can affect blood pressure to different extents in different people.
—
Karen Berger,
Verywell Health,
25 Feb. 2026
Other agencies impacted to varying extents include the Coast Guard and Secret Service.
—
Jared Gans,
The Hill,
13 Feb. 2026
Additional states including Florida, Kansas, Indiana, Maryland, Utah, Illinois, and New York, have considered (to differing extents) the idea of updating their maps, Reuters reported.
—
Ramon Padilla,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extents
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Here are the inspection scores and violations for restaurants within the city limits of Plano for June 7th - June 13th, 2026.
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The Nathan’s Famous contest is a mix of athleticism and testing human limits.
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Surrounded by wide open expanses of the Santa Monica Mountains, this modern abode has a direct connection with its surroundings via the sliding doors and casement windows that swing open to beckon in fresh air and sunlight.
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For example, the warmer temperatures in the El Niño region are happening in the context of warmer than normal temperatures across vast expanses in the Pacific.
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Avian scopes are typically below 20, and so are the scopes for fishes.
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Permissions are increasingly derived at runtime from natural-language intent in ways that OAuth scopes were never designed to govern.
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Definitely include the piece's dimensions in your listing, Kristin Keyes, the founder of Kristin Keyes Interiors, says.
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All of these dimensions are thought to be as small as physically possible — close to the Planck scale (10-35 meters) — but the researchers proposed that the dark dimension could be significantly bigger than the others — on the order of a micron (10-6 meters).
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Local services and programs affected by the weather included some office closings and even limitations on waterpark hours.
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Claims about savings, refunds, fees, limitations and problem-solving should be clear to customers and AI systems.
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Space exploration is entering a new era, mirroring historical expansions where lasting wealth stemmed from infrastructure, not just initial discoveries.
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Republicans said the expansions from the pandemic era went too far and tried to persuade Democrats to fund a temporary spending bill that didn't address the expiring ACA subsidies, with promises of discussing ways to continue the subsidies later.
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What if Baahubali dies and has to go through the 14 realms of the afterlife in Indian mythology?
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The new wrinkle is that the big platforms want to draft off what makes top creators successful in their digital-native realms.
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Available in 5-piece, 8-piece, 15-piece and 30-piece order sizes, the nuggets come in mini-buckets along with Jollibee’s signature gravy or one of five dipping sauces.
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They’ve been specially designed in sizes that acknowledge that the world includes people with different physiques, but where their faces would be, there’s a mirror.
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“Extents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extents. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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