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- verb Present participle of
span . - noun The process by which something is
spanned .
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Examples
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Joseph Bonanno led one of the top crime families in the New York area for30 years, spanning from the 1930s to the 1960s.
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In a nutshell, her solution is what we call a spanning tree.
2010 March « This is what a computer scientist looks like 2010
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In a nutshell, her solution is what we call a spanning tree.
Ada Lovelace Day Spotlight: Radia Perlman « This is what a computer scientist looks like 2010
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In a nutshell, her solution is what we call a spanning tree.
2010 March 24 « This is what a computer scientist looks like 2010
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But with the call spanning the globe, this Skype quality is the best we can do.
Joystiq Justin McElroy 2010
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In the fourth quarter, Osteotech signed a multi-year tissue supply agreement with Community Tissue Services (CTS) with an initial term spanning 10 years.
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This is Tony Towle’s tenth book of poems: a collective history spanning from the beginning of his career to the present.
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No, these apps aren’t cross-platform (yet), but what I lose in spanning the Linux/PC divide, I gain in the use of Xcode, Apple’s development environment, and frankly a faster rendering engine.
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James S. Chanos, President and founder of Kynikos Associates, L.P., made his reputation with a series of notable short calls spanning three decades including the bankruptcies of Baldwin United in the 1980s and Enron at the beginning of this century.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Janet Tavakoli 2012
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(0830 GMT), when he is expected to apologize for a series of recalls spanning the globe.
IBTimes.com RSS Feed 2010
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