Cover and Span

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Cover verb - To serve as a replacement usually for a time only.

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Span is a synonym for cover. In some cases you can use "Span" instead a verb "Cover".

Nearby Words: covered, covering, coverage, coverlet

Span verb - To cover or extend over an area or time period.

Usage example: "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres

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Cover is a synonym for span in extend over topic. Sometimes you can use "Cover" instead a verb "Span", if it concerns topics such as extend across, stretch over.

Nearby Word: spanned

good	good cover	good span
high	high cover	high span
full	full cover	full span
low	low cover	low span
Other adjectives: original, single, entire, bad, black, comic, iconic.

variety	cover variety	span variety
series	cover series	span series
range	cover range	span range
period	cover period	span period
Other words: world, game, distance, planet, miles, spectrum, games, distances.

In other words, he manages to cover the entire span of the stage you're on in a single jump.

Source: Beyond The Impossible / Video Games
These poems cover a very long time span (Marko was said to be several hundred years old in the poem Death of Kraljević Marko), and are action-oriented and over-the top.

Source: Literature / Serbian Epic Poetry
Because their memories only span a few centuries, they eventually start believing their cover stories, to the point that they even believe that they are mortals who can die.

Source: Literature / The Madness Season

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