as in long
lasting for a considerable time
a marathon study session the night before the exam
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Todd Spangler, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
Look, the people running a marathon are not the healthcare workers heading back to the hospital in the spring of 2020.
—Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
One of the cable networks needs to do a Shane Black Christmas movie marathon one of these days.
—Bob Sassone, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
So, trust the vision, empower your team and remember that transforming an organization is a marathon, not a sprint.
—Parna Sarkar-Basu, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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During his tenure at Fox Business, Cavuto had led all of the network’s election coverage since 2007, including the marathon election-night special report in 2020.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
Look, the people running a marathon are not the healthcare workers heading back to the hospital in the spring of 2020.
—Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
One of the cable networks needs to do a Shane Black Christmas movie marathon one of these days.
—Bob Sassone, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
So, trust the vision, empower your team and remember that transforming an organization is a marathon, not a sprint.
—Parna Sarkar-Basu, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Then-President Trump and lawmakers reached a deal shortly after that to end the shutdown, the longest funding lapse in the United States.Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
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The longest consecutive shutdown took place under President Donald Trump when about 800,000 federal employees went without pay for 35 days from December 2018 to January 2019.Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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At the finish line of the 2015 Western States Endurance Run, arguably the most famous and most prestigious American ultramarathon, the crowd suddenly became energized.Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2024
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By being both an emergency room doctor and an ultramarathon runner, La Jolla resident Russ Reinbolt sees himself as being in a position to inspire.Ashley Mackin-Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
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While Barranquilla doesn’t actually touch the Caribbean Sea, the city offers a charming alternative in the form of the Malecón del Río, a lengthy promenade that spans along the mouth of the Magdalena River.Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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That adds to the already lengthy gaps between seasons.Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2024
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For Black graduates, race weighs heavily on the social and economic outcomes associated with a college degree.Michael Collins, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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The financial demands of NASCAR, requiring several hundred thousand dollars per car per race, make sponsorship indispensable.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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Each triathlon will see Spencer complete a 3.8km swim, 180km bike ride and a full 42.2km marathon – in each of the seven continents, finishing with the hardest one of them all, in Antarctica.Max Goldbart, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2024
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And in Long Beach, where the A Line ends, eight sports will be played — rowing, sailing, triathlon, water polo, canoe sprint, artistic swimming, marathon swimming and handball.Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
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Two male coaches and a former men's biathlon team member confirmed the culture of misogyny described by the women, who reported facing retaliation after speaking out.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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In 2023, the Games traveled to Dusseldorf, Germany and will head to both Vancouver and Whistler, Canada from Feb. 8 to 16, 2025 — the first time winter sports like alpine skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, Nordic skiing, skeleton and wheelchair curling will be introduced to the Games.Rachel Burchfield, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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Each group tied their legs together and participated in a six-legged pentathlon.Esther Kang, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
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The senior won the state pentathlon and qualified for the New Balance Nationals.Brian Roach, Boston Herald, 8 May 2024
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In many ways, support for the decathlon and heptathlon is not trending in the right direction.Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 27 July 2024
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Grenada: The island nation in the eastern Caribbean needed just six athletes to win a medal, taking bronze in the men’s decathlon for an average of 0.1667 medals per athlete.Mark Puleo and John Bradford, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
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“Marathon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marathon. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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