Duration
Duration noun - The period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress.
Usage example: for the whole duration of the speech the bored audience fidgeted
Stretch
Stretch noun - An unbroken period of time during which you do something.
Usage example: he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary
Duration is a synonym for stretch in time topic. You can use "Duration" instead a noun "Stretch", if it concerns topics such as period of time.
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Comic-Book Time: The anime manages to stretch the first Yousen game over five and a half episodes, which is more than twice the actual match duration.
Source: Manga / Kuroko no Basuke
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Stretch and Duration. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/duration/stretch
Duration & Stretch. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/duration/stretch>.
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