An extendable microphone can be clipped to the sun visor to ensure conversations are louder and clearer.

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The really basic education in math, science, and engineering is extendable and lasts much longer than 5-10 years.

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The soldiers also scribbled a drawing of their idea for an extendable neck.

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For this fall and winter, Mr. Kimmel has stitched a true shape-shifter in the form of an extendable "hunter" coat.

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There are eight "hazcams" front and back, to take stereo black-and-white pictures for depth perception, and four navigation cameras ("navcams") at the top of an extendable mast.

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You may have thought FBAR filing deadlines were not extendable.

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The high ISO sensitivity (100-6400 which is extendable to 25600) delivers brilliant shots in dark or poorly lit environments as well as producing clear images of fast moving subjects.

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Our favorite weapon among the three: The massive Raider CS-35, essentially a Nerf tommy gun with extendable stock that can rapidly-fire 35 darts from its detachable drum magazine.

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Mr Grayling urged the government to adopt the Scottish system, in which the DNA of someone arrested but not convicted can be held for a period of three years, which is extendable to five.

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See Wah-lun unveiled a straightforward plot: they would send Siu a message by ambushing his friend Wong, pinning his car between two others and then hustling him over to a nearby village, where a secluded, run-down building would be prepared with gloves, hoods, knives, and extendable police batons.

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