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Noun
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The penny pinching has small business owners complaining about hard times.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Mar. 2026 -
The bra’s signature M frame creates a sturdy structure that supports your chest sans underwire — thereby avoiding any digging, pinching, and poking throughout the day.—
Clara McMahon,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026
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The departments of Commerce, Housing and Urban Development and Transportation, along with the Federal Housing Finance Agency, are instructed to eliminate regulations and update programs that are reducing residential development.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Mar. 2026
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But the practical effect also meant that the entire second floor of the hotel was turned over to the pope, reducing its capacity for paying guests.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Being strong doesn't cancel out toxic exposures or sleep deprivation.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
13 Mar. 2026
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Studies have shown there’s less activity in the parts of the brain associated with rumination and stress during sensory deprivation experiments, says Lurie.—
Julia Ries Wexler,
Outside,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The earthly experience of personal grief and privation that inspired such transcendent beauty is mind-bending in its own way.—
Eric Bulson,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2026
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Diaries kept by Eugenia Zieber describe the privations of the trail, chief among them the frequent deaths of fellow travelers.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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The package extended the belt-tightening path South Africa has been on since 2018, when President Cyril Ramaphosa took over a fiscally strained by ballooning budget shortfalls, rising budget shortfalls and a cascade of credit rating cuts.—
Tiisetso Motsoeneng,
semafor.com,
9 Mar. 2026
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These sorts of good-paying, white-collar jobs are becoming harder to get — and to keep — thanks to AI and other belt-tightening effects, even without the fallout from cutthroat wheeling and dealing.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Straitening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straitening. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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