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duration

noun as in length of action, event

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Officials from states that have received federal money warned that a sudden freeze of unspecified duration will cause enormous social and economic disruption for their constituents.

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“The closure will be in place for an unknown duration,” the California Highway Patrol said.

Most of us in this country will worry about money for the duration of our lives.

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“However lack of clarity with respect to the scope, duration and implementation — especially concerns about potential delays in critical public health information are valid.”

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Dark money, in the Yank sense of that term, plays virtually no role in European electoral campaigns, which tend to be tightly controlled, brief in duration and mostly financed by the state.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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