Prolong
verb
To make something last longer.
He wanted to prolong his stay in the country.
Often appears as...
- prolong the life
- prolong the stay
verb
To cause to last longer.
They used artificial means to prolong the life of the patient.
Often appears as...
- prolong the agony
- prolong the pain
verb
To make something last longer.
He wanted to prolong his stay in the country.
Often appears as...
- prolong the life
- prolong the stay
verb
To cause to last longer.
They used artificial means to prolong the life of the patient.
Often appears as...
- prolong the agony
- prolong the pain
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Pro Tip 1/3Positive Extension
Often implies a desirable increase in time or experience.
Vacationers might prolong their trip to enjoy more sights.
Pro Tip 2/3Planned Duration
Suggests a deliberate action to make something last, not by chance.
She read slowly to prolong the enjoyment of the book.
Pro Tip 3/3Time Sensitivity
Used when time is an important factor in the context.
The director decided to prolong the deadline for the project submission.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Extension
Often implies a desirable increase in time or experience.
Vacationers might prolong their trip to enjoy more sights.
Pro Tip 2/3Planned Duration
Suggests a deliberate action to make something last, not by chance.
She read slowly to prolong the enjoyment of the book.
Pro Tip 3/3Time Sensitivity
Used when time is an important factor in the context.
The director decided to prolong the deadline for the project submission.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Extension
Often implies a desirable increase in time or experience.
Vacationers might prolong their trip to enjoy more sights.
Pro Tip 2/3Planned Duration
Suggests a deliberate action to make something last, not by chance.
She read slowly to prolong the enjoyment of the book.
Pro Tip 3/3Time Sensitivity
Used when time is an important factor in the context.
The director decided to prolong the deadline for the project submission.
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Seven Superpowered...
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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Eric X. Li: A tale of...
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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The danger of science...
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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Peter Saul: Let's talk...
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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Meet the tardigrade, the...
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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Let's talk about dying -...
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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Savitri and Satyavan:...
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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My Life As an Adventure...
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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Images of strength and...
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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This one weird trick...
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.
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Seven Superpowered...
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
Video examples
Eric X. Li: A tale of...
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.
Video examples
The danger of science...
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.
Video examples
Peter Saul: Let's talk...
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,
Video examples
Meet the tardigrade, the...
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.
Video examples
Let's talk about dying -...
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
Video examples
Savitri and Satyavan:...
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.
Video examples
My Life As an Adventure...
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,
Video examples
Images of strength and...
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
Video examples
This one weird trick...
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.
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Jennie Garth
American Actress
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.
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Niall Ferguson
British Historian
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.
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Peter Maurer
Swiss Activist
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.
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Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakian Writer
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.
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Winston Churchill
British Statesman
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.
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Albert Einstein
German Physicist
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.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian Author
Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
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LaMarcus Aldridge
American Athlete
I'm definitely not one to prolong things and drag it out, that's not really my personality.
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Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
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Lord Byron
British Poet
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
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Jennie Garth
American Actress
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.
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Niall Ferguson
British Historian
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.
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Peter Maurer
Swiss Activist
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.
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Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakian Writer
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.
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Winston Churchill
British Statesman
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.
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Albert Einstein
German Physicist
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.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian Author
Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
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LaMarcus Aldridge
American Athlete
I'm definitely not one to prolong things and drag it out, that's not really my personality.
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Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
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Lord Byron
British Poet
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
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