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In the men’s wheelchair race, the USA’s Daniel Romanchuk took his first win at this marathon since 2019, ending Swiss star Marcel Hug’s domination of this event in recent years. Issy Ronald, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024 Final runners cross the finish line at memorable TCS NYC Marathon Final runners cross the finish line at memorable TCS NYC Marathon 02:45 New York City marathon winners in the men's and women's divisions will each earn six figures for outpacing their competitors in the 26.2-mile race on Sunday. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2024 But equally important for the industry to remember, as new technologies continue to come online, is that this is a marathon, not a sprint. Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 1 Nov. 2024 Her Son's Rare Disorder The marathon also marked a 40th birthday celebration for Fogarty, which is a milestone not many people with her condition achieve. Jen Juneau, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for marathon 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marathon
Adjective
  • Inigo San Felix / National Geographic Using measuring tape, scientists found that the coral colony spans about 111 feet wide, 104 feet long and 18 feet high — large enough to fit two full-size basketball courts side by side and longer than the world’s largest animal, the blue whale.
    Peter Guo, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • But that logic can escape state transportation executives oriented toward longer, intercity trips instead of shorter, intracity ones, as well as highway engineers trained to focus on maximizing the speed of all vehicles, regardless of how many people are inside them.
    David Zipper, Vox, 13 Nov. 2024
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  • The Run Rabbit Run is not typically mentioned as one of the hardest ultramarathon races in the United States, and 2017 wasn’t an abnormally hot or difficult year.
    Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Satisfy wanted to build an ultra-durable pair of shorts that could withstand ultramarathons through desert brambles and snags or forests dense with deadfall.
    Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • In the end, the experiment demonstrated vampire bats can convert amino acids into energy in less than 10 minutes and use it to fuel a lengthy endurance run.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Some jurisdictions faced a lengthy, two-page ballot that election officials worried would take voters longer to fill out at the polls and cause lines.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • State of play: The presidential race, with 11 candidates, is likely to go to a runoff.
    Marina E. Franco (Noticias Telemundo for Axios), Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Their insights matched and magnified lessons drawn from my own experience and highlighted just how different this race is from all that have come before.
    Jack Schlossberg, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2024
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  • But a two-day rainfall that weekend flooded sewers and sank testing, delaying the men’s triathlon for a day.
    John Surico, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The men’s triathlon race was delayed over concerns that the Seine River was too contaminated (read: poopy), but the waters were late deemed safe enough for the event to take place alongside the women’s triathlon race on Wednesday.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • So in between enjoying curling, the luge, the biathlon, and hockey, take a gander at our rundown.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 29 July 2024
  • The next Invictus Games will be held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada in February 2025, and winter sports like alpine skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, Nordic skiing, skeleton and wheelchair curling will be introduced for the first time.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The final new event is also unconventional: Obstacle courses are coming to the Olympics in 2028 as part of the existing pentathlon.
    Justin Klawans, The Week US, theweek, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The obstacle courses will join running, swimming, shooting and fencing as the five events that make up the Olympic pentathlon.
    Justin Klawans, The Week US, theweek, 14 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • The other athlete, Tom Papas, had been named to three teams but only completed one full decathlon.
    Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Marra wanted the Paris organizers to highlight the decathlon and heptathlon.
    Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 27 July 2024

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“Marathon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marathon. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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