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at a stretch

adv

Definitions

  1. In one continuous period of time

    In one continuous period of time; at a time.

    • He worked for fifteen hours at a stretch.
    • Clara's father, a trollish ne'er-do-well who spent most of his time in brothels and saloons, would disappear for days and weeks at a stretch, leaving Clara and her mother to fend for themselves.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for at a stretch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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