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If your home doesn’t have a space that stays dark for at least 12 hours at a stretch, cover your Christmas cactus with a thick blanket daily to extend the dark period as needed to spur flower formation.
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Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Oct. 2024
Like nearly all of Arnold’s previous films, even Cow at a stretch, Bird takes pains to show all the beauty and the bloodshed, to borrow a phrase from Nan Goldin’s life, of working-class life.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
This is because location-tracking tags operate on tiny energy budgets—often powered by button-sized batteries and running on a single charge for months or even years at a stretch.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 May 2024
The chemicals can be found in everyday products, such as gasoline, paints and pesticides, but in breathing machines, the fumes can be inhaled for hours at a stretch.
—Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2023
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Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Oct. 2024
Like nearly all of Arnold’s previous films, even Cow at a stretch, Bird takes pains to show all the beauty and the bloodshed, to borrow a phrase from Nan Goldin’s life, of working-class life.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
This is because location-tracking tags operate on tiny energy budgets—often powered by button-sized batteries and running on a single charge for months or even years at a stretch.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 May 2024
The chemicals can be found in everyday products, such as gasoline, paints and pesticides, but in breathing machines, the fumes can be inhaled for hours at a stretch.
—Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2023
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“At a stretch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20a%20stretch. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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