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Talk about one day inside as stretch! (6,3)

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I believe the answer is:

spread out

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'stretch' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with contact as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'talk about one day inside' is the wordplay.
'talk' becomes 'spout' (spout can informally mean to talk about something).
'about one' becomes 'rea' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'day' becomes 'd' (abbreviation for day).
'inside' indicates putting letters inside.
'rea'+'d'='read'
'spout' going around 'read' is 'SPREAD-OUT'.

'as' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for spread out that I've seen before include "Move so as to cover a wider area" , "move apart" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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