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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

Although he was never accused of wrongdoing, WNYC's protractedly shabby treatment of the late-great Steve Post, that began under Ms. Walker's tenure, was a harbinger of what was to come.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2018

Who, if she spends her "Sundays out" At Chapel, as she does, no doubt, Must be protractedly devout?

From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892 by Various