stretch the envelope

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1. 1

   Synonym of push the envelope.

   • We gratefully acknowledge the contributors whose courage and commitment to a multicultural education not only bring hope and possibility to the multicultural terrain but continue to stretch the envelope of praxis in that terrain.
   • Throughout the 1980s, advanced latex special effects processes allowed directors like David Cronenberg, Brian Yuzna, and Clive Barker to stretch the envelope of onscreen surrealism with a previously impossible ease.
   • In a private physician's office, doctors stretch the envelope (although this can become a concern to the state medical board, since that is the only oversight).

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