straiten

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Recent Examples of straiten But her circumstances did not remain straitened for long. Jess Bergman, The New Republic, 20 Feb. 2023 Generally, its decisions tend toward loosening rather than straitening the rules. Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2019 Despite the fact that the family's construction firm is relatively prosperous due to its generous share of government contracts, the family's finances are considerably straitened. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
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Verb
  • An estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the proposals would reduce the number of people with health care by at least 7.6 million from the Medicaid changes, and possibly more with other changes to the Affordable Care Act.
    Kevin Freking, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
  • In Sacramento, California, the weather service warned its office would have reduced staffing overnight.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • But were you really impoverished by buying from Costco?
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Republicans have floated industry-destroying ideas like taxing college and university scholarships as income, which would instantaneously blow up thousands of budgets in higher education and impoverish millions of students.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025

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“Straiten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straiten. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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