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Till, portrayed by Antonio Michael Woodard in Mosaic Theater Company’s protractedly solemn mounting, is a 14-year-old live wire with a stutter, a disability the teenager tries to overcome by breaking out into whistles.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2022

Perhaps most memorable of all was the time when he got protractedly and perplexingly upset about a high street bakery introducing a vegan sausage roll.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2021

A generation later, the killing of George Floyd in May 2020 would spur protests that spurred corporate reckoning that spurred the Washington NFL team to scrap “Redskins” suddenly after refusing protractedly.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2020

For the Daily Mirror, Ruth Myers, a handwriting expert, found, in a protractedly unflattering analysis, that the letter exposed Meghan as “emotionally insecure and self-pitying”.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2019

The word "see" in John 8:51 means that the believer shall not gaze at death protractedly, steadily, exhaustively.

From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by Evans, William