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Example sentences for: marathon

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It is the first citation in the OED Supplement , Volume 4 (1986), which defines the word as a “TV program lasting several hours, especially to solicit contributions,” coined by analogy from marathon . What had apparently happened was that a false analysis had divided the Olympic event into two specious morphemes, as if mar(a) meant `running' and -(a)thon meant `long' as a suffix.
A day with McCain in New Hampshire is a marathon of candor without precedent in modern presidential politics.
Yes, I finished the marathon, but I did it by putting on roller skates and grabbing the suspenders of those who knew what they were doing.
The answer has nothing to do with their cause, however, but with the simple fact that dictionaries are not exercises in bi-unique substitutability; in other words, if one of the senses of run is `operate' (as in She runs an engine factory ), that does not make it valid to assume that one can substitute operate for run in We run in the marathon every year . Although recognizing this as a shortcoming of dictionaries and assigning it arbitrarily to what, for lack of a better term, we might call the “genius” of the language, might seem trivial to the casual observer, it is a valid matter for concern in the realm of lexicology.
and engage in marathon e-mail bitch sessions.