Span
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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Synonyms for Span
Traverse is a synonym for span in position topic. In some cases you can use "Traverse" instead the word "Span" as a verb or a noun, when it comes to topics like cross, crossing, bridge, extend across. popular alternative
Nearby Word: spanned
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Both words in one sentence
- Different combatants can traverse different distances within the same time span on the same terrain, e.g.
- This is what you are left with after Tales of Symphonia has presented you with a FaceHeel Turn, a Distressed Damsel, and five successive Heroic Sacrifices in the span of one lengthy dungeon - and there's still a couple of floors for Lloyd to traverse solo.
Source: Solo Sequence - At Span Five, you're telepathic, functionally immortal, you can traverse nearly all of human history in a single span and you're much more like the Inheritors than a human being.
Source: Immortality Immorality
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Traverse and Span. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/span/traverse
Span & Traverse. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/span/traverse>.
Traverse or Span. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/span/traverse.
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