Synonyms for prolonging
pro·long·ing

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1. List of paraphrases for "prolonging":

   extending, extend, lengthening

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1. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton:

   There are some within the community at the moment trying to pressure people not to take up the offer, but that is just prolonging their period on Nauru.

2. Avril Haines:

   We do not foresee the Russian military recovering enough this year to make major territorial gains, but Putin most likely calculates the time works in his favor, and that prolonging the war, including with potential pauses in the fighting, may be his best remaining pathway to eventually securing Russia’s strategic interests in Ukraine, even if it takes years.

3. Rod Rosenstein:

   The goal is to discourage 'piling on', and instead coordinate with local, state, federal and foreign authorities to achieve a joint result that imposes appropriate punishment without prolonging investigations.

4. Phil Klotzbach:

   Climatologically, what ends your hurricane season is too much wind shear, so La Niña tends to prolong the hurricane season since it tends to reduce shear, of course, last year is an example of La Niña prolonging the season... on steroids !

5. State John Kerry on Sunday:

   The world needs to push in one direction: Stopping the oppression and suffering of the Syrian people and ending, not prolonging, this war.