Vocabulary
Extent
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the area covered by something.
Urdu meaning
حد، خاص لمبائی، حجم، پھیلاﺅ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
Sentences are selected from stored editorial text where your search word appears. If none appear yet, run the admin sentence generator for fuller coverage.
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While these factors were known, the extent of the widening gulf had not been fully assessed before the Iran war.
Dawn Editorials —
Recalibrating positions
— 2026-04-26
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The successive reductions of 10-35pc in Islamabad`s valuation tables underline the extent of pressure exerted by the real estate lobby that benefits from maintaining a wide differential between official valuation and actual market rates.
Dawn Editorials —
Real estate power
— 2026-04-24
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The extent of damage is considerable.
Dawn Editorials —
War reparations
— 2026-04-19
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To some extent, this has already happened, for example, jet fuel and diesel prices have skyrocketedbeyond any ofthe others.But the most important decoupling would be between the futures market and what they call the `physical market`.
Dawn Editorials —
Paper oil
— 2026-04-16
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But the extent to which Magyar might wish to go down that route is unclear, given he was complicit insome of the worst outrages.
Dawn Editorials —
Hungary for change
— 2026-04-15
Synonyms
area, size, expanse, length, stretch, range, scope, compass; proportions, dimensions
Antonyms
confined space, enclosure
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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