Protracted
adjective
Lasting for a long time or longer than expected.
The negotiations were protracted and difficult.
Often appears as...
- protracted dispute
- protracted illness
past tense verb
To make something last longer.
They fear that the military is deliberately protracting the process.
Often appears as...
- protracting the process
- protracting the negotiations
adjective
Lasting for a long time or longer than expected.
The negotiations were protracted and difficult.
Often appears as...
- protracted dispute
- protracted illness
past tense verb
To make something last longer.
They fear that the military is deliberately protracting the process.
Often appears as...
- protracting the process
- protracting the negotiations
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Often implies frustration or difficulty due to the extended length of time.
Her recovery from injury was protracted, causing her to miss the entire season.
Pro Tip 2/3Impatience Implied
Can suggest that someone is impatient with the duration of an event.
The protracted meeting made the attendees restless.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasize Duration
Use it to emphasize that something takes more time than necessary or expected.
The construction of the bridge was protracted due to bad weather.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Often implies frustration or difficulty due to the extended length of time.
Her recovery from injury was protracted, causing her to miss the entire season.
Pro Tip 2/3Impatience Implied
Can suggest that someone is impatient with the duration of an event.
The protracted meeting made the attendees restless.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasize Duration
Use it to emphasize that something takes more time than necessary or expected.
The construction of the bridge was protracted due to bad weather.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Often implies frustration or difficulty due to the extended length of time.
Her recovery from injury was protracted, causing her to miss the entire season.
Pro Tip 2/3Impatience Implied
Can suggest that someone is impatient with the duration of an event.
The protracted meeting made the attendees restless.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasize Duration
Use it to emphasize that something takes more time than necessary or expected.
The construction of the bridge was protracted due to bad weather.
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Benign advice -- now, profoundly mistaken. The whole world is engulfed in a revolution. And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence, because the universities design the system in their image. If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance.
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It's clear that international financial institutions should have flexibility in order to be able to invest more massively in support to these countries. We need to combine all the instruments and to understand that today, in protracted situations, at a certain moment, that it doesn't make sense anymore to make a distinction
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6 big ethical questions...
they built social systems, they built technologies. They built ways to manage this place and to manage it remarkably over a protracted period of time. And every moment any one of us stands on a stage as Australians, here or abroad, we carry with us a privilege and a responsibility because of that history.
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History vs. Richard...
"He ended it two years after taking office. Meanwhile, his campaign had sabotaged the previous president's peace talks, urging the South Vietnamese government to hold out for supposedly better terms, which, I might add, didn't materialize. So, he protracted the war for four years,
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Heather Brooke: My...
to revolutionize the British Parliament. That was not my intention. I was just making these requests as part of research for my first book. But it ended up in this very long, protracted legal battle and there I was after five years fighting against Parliament
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Why schools need to...
And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities. If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance. And the consequence is that many highly-talented,
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A Look at the Whimsical...
that I really loved and I wouldn't want to protracted death on a bed somewhere in the hospital I'd want to fall off or you know fall over halfway through a show and the audience think think that it's part of the show and the grounded
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Wade Davis: Into the...
of the protracted adventure spread out like a map and bathed in soft full moonlight that night and with that scene in front of me it was quite easy to realize that the price of life is death and that so long as a payment be made
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Inside the Amazon: A...
And that was her toy, and she'd take it swimming and it it just absolutely hated water. It was just this protracted awful experience for it going in the water. And all it wants to do is get onto her head.
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David Deutsch: A new way...
They even arrived at answers, such as myths, that dominated their lives, yet bore almost no resemblance to the truth. The tragedy of that protracted stagnation
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Do schools kill...
Benign advice -- now, profoundly mistaken. The whole world is engulfed in a revolution. And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence, because the universities design the system in their image. If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance.
Video examples
Refugees have the right...
It's clear that international financial institutions should have flexibility in order to be able to invest more massively in support to these countries. We need to combine all the instruments and to understand that today, in protracted situations, at a certain moment, that it doesn't make sense anymore to make a distinction
Video examples
6 big ethical questions...
they built social systems, they built technologies. They built ways to manage this place and to manage it remarkably over a protracted period of time. And every moment any one of us stands on a stage as Australians, here or abroad, we carry with us a privilege and a responsibility because of that history.
Video examples
History vs. Richard...
"He ended it two years after taking office. Meanwhile, his campaign had sabotaged the previous president's peace talks, urging the South Vietnamese government to hold out for supposedly better terms, which, I might add, didn't materialize. So, he protracted the war for four years,
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Heather Brooke: My...
to revolutionize the British Parliament. That was not my intention. I was just making these requests as part of research for my first book. But it ended up in this very long, protracted legal battle and there I was after five years fighting against Parliament
Video examples
Why schools need to...
And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities. If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance. And the consequence is that many highly-talented,
Video examples
A Look at the Whimsical...
that I really loved and I wouldn't want to protracted death on a bed somewhere in the hospital I'd want to fall off or you know fall over halfway through a show and the audience think think that it's part of the show and the grounded
Video examples
Wade Davis: Into the...
of the protracted adventure spread out like a map and bathed in soft full moonlight that night and with that scene in front of me it was quite easy to realize that the price of life is death and that so long as a payment be made
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Inside the Amazon: A...
And that was her toy, and she'd take it swimming and it it just absolutely hated water. It was just this protracted awful experience for it going in the water. And all it wants to do is get onto her head.
Video examples
David Deutsch: A new way...
They even arrived at answers, such as myths, that dominated their lives, yet bore almost no resemblance to the truth. The tragedy of that protracted stagnation
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Alban Berg
Austrian Composer
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
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Benjamin Wittes
American Journalist
We should never again have an attorney general capable of saying virtually nothing as the law of major intelligence programs and the integrity of his department's work in overseeing these programs are assailed over a protracted period of time.
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James Wolcott
American Critic
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.
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Heraclitus
Greek Philosopher
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
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Li Keqiang
Chinese Politician
In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests.
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Christopher Buckley
American Novelist
Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
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Alan Greenspan
American Economist
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Franklin Pierce
American President
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
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Alexis de Tocqueville
French Historian
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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Sun Tzu
Chinese Philosopher
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
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Alban Berg
Austrian Composer
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
Quote examples
Benjamin Wittes
American Journalist
We should never again have an attorney general capable of saying virtually nothing as the law of major intelligence programs and the integrity of his department's work in overseeing these programs are assailed over a protracted period of time.
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James Wolcott
American Critic
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.
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Heraclitus
Greek Philosopher
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Quote examples
Li Keqiang
Chinese Politician
In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests.
Quote examples
Christopher Buckley
American Novelist
Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
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Alan Greenspan
American Economist
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Franklin Pierce
American President
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
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Alexis de Tocqueville
French Historian
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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Sun Tzu
Chinese Philosopher
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
Example 1 of 10
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