Jennie Garth

I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.

American Actress

Niall Ferguson

Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.

British Historian

Peter Maurer

Economic activity can help repair war-torn societies, but if it's not conducted responsibly, it can also create or prolong violence. Companies and international organisations must help strengthen communities and overcome the trauma of violence.

Swiss Activist

Milan Kundera

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Czechoslovakian Writer

Winston Churchill

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

British Statesman

Albert Einstein

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

German Physicist

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

Russian Author

LaMarcus Aldridge

I'm definitely not one to prolong things and drag it out, that's not really my personality.

American Athlete

Aldous Huxley

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

English Novelist

Lord Byron

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

British Poet

Often implies a desirable increase in time or experience.

Positive Extension

Suggests a deliberate action to make something last, not by chance.

Planned Duration

Used when time is an important factor in the context.

Time Sensitivity

Often seen as unwanted, especially in unpleasant situations.

Negative Extension

Commonly used in medical or health-related situations.

Health Context

Can imply making an already intense situation more severe.

Intensifying Effect

 they only swim about two miles per hour and they only grow up to one centimeter every year which is half the growth rate of mount everest yeah a literal mountain grows faster than the greenland shark so it's really hard to imagine what doesn't grow faster than the greenland shark all this slow and prolonged life history gives them the power of immortality kind

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 Institutionally, new rules get enacted to correct previous dysfunctions. For example, term limits. Political leaders used to retain their positions for life, and they used that to accumulate power and perpetuate their rules. Mao was the father of modern China, yet his prolonged rule led to disastrous mistakes.

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 And some of it worked, and some of it didn't. We got rid of the stuff that didn't. Now we can do it in a more precise way -- and there are risks, absolutely -- but we can put something like vitamin A into rice, and that stuff can help millions of people, millions of people, prolong their lives.

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 So we have had tremendous success, and we kind of got caught up in our own success quite a bit, and we started using expressions like "lifesaving." I really apologize to everybody for doing that, because obviously, we don't. What we do is prolong people's lives, and delay death,

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 or to develop stress-tolerant crops that can cope with Earth's changing climate. And by studying how tardigrades survive prolonged exposure to the vacuum of outer space, scientists can generate clues about the environmental limits of life and how to safeguard astronauts.

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 and we we kind of got caught up in our own success quite a bit we started using expressions like life-saving I really apologize for everybody for doing that because obviously we don't what we do is prolong people's lives and delay death

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 Moved by her powerful words, the sage told the princess to follow an ancient spiritual regimen. With regular prayer, periods of fasting, and preparation of special herbs and plants, she might be able to prolong Satyavan’s life.

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 and we had to start sleeping with batteries in our sleeping bags, and it's not because they're, like, I have a weird thing with batteries, it actually helps prolong the life of them, so if they're not, warmingup and cooling,

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 after her posit her successful reconstructive surgery after fistula which is a hole in the birthing the birthing canal that happens to women after prolonged labor and can render her incontinent we're in suffering fistula in

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 One simple vitamin can reduce your risk of heart disease. Eating chocolate reduces stress in students. New drug prolongs lives of patients with rare disease.

Prolong

To make something last longer.

Often appears as...

To cause to last longer.

Often appears as...

Positive Extension

Planned Duration

Time Sensitivity

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