Thesaurus results for SPANNING

spanning

verb

present participle of span

as in measuring

to find out the size, extent, or amount of tried to span the distance between the two trees by eye alone

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Recent Examples of spanning Investigators examined allegations involving more than 300 victims spanning from 1950 through 2011. — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026 Behind every live event is a vast, complex network of businesses spanning production, logistics, staging, technology and venue operations, many of them relatively small and specialized. — Davis Noell, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026 My Aim is True — 49th Anniversary Edition, is easily one of the year’s best reissues, packed with unheard songs and era-spanning live performances. — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2026 Corbin-Murray has crafted a slew of looks for Chan over the years, spanning red carpets to movie premieres. — Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 25 Oct. 2026 Flair, full named Richard Morgan Fliehr, is considered one of the most successful WWE pro wrestlers ever, with a career spanning 50 years and at least 16 championships. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2026 The result was a career-spanning tour de force from one of hip-hop’s most seminal figures, and perhaps more Yankee hats and jerseys in the crowd than SoFi Stadium has ever seen. — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2026 The mixtape’s 29 tracks feature guests spanning a range of genres and levels of visibility. — Abby Jones, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2026 But Virginia Tech answered with two consecutive scoring drives spanning the third and fourth quarters to pull away. — ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026

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The new ship will also be longer, measuring around 16 feet (5 meters) longer than the F-110 at 492 feet (150 meters).

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Governors can help change that by prioritizing and measuring what students know and can do in civics.

— Lamar Alexander, Time, 23 Oct. 2026

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Sigrid Rausing, Granta’s publisher, said in a statement that the magazine fed Nazir’s story into Claude as a way of gauging whether it was written with AI.

— T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026
The first is a ratio chart, which is one of the best tools for gauging relative strength.

— Todd Gordon, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026

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