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When you have protracted response events or complex events, what you want to do is set aside a group of subject matter experts to look at the long term.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2020

“Tell me you have begun total denuclearization, because we’re not going to have protracted negotiations,” he imagined Trump telling the North Korean.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2018

The pace of Hernandez’s jog to second would have protracted the wait in a senior citizen movie ticket line.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2011

Schlesinger says that the "second strike might have protracted the stand on the beachhead from three days to ten."

From Time Magazine Archive

He courted his neighbours assiduously, sending presents from his garden, stopping to have protracted conversations with men whom he had known but slightly before.

From Sowing Seeds in Danny by McClung, Nellie L.