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straitening

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verb

present participle of straiten

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for straitening
Verb
  • Companies and Customers are Leading As global markets prioritize clean technologies, major corporations are staying the course on their goals for reducing carbon pollution and propelling innovation.
    Mindy Lubber, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Device lifecycle management and repair services will become increasingly important, reducing the amount of technology that ends up in landfills.
    Max Silber, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • By April 2024, as the bombing, displacement and deprivation continued, UNICEF estimated that 100 percent of children in Gaza were in need of mental health and psychosocial support.
    Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • Chronic sleep deprivation can lead to fatigue, mood swings, low libido and difficulty concentrating, according to the National Institutes of Health.
    Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The policy, while inevitably controversial, was meant to correct for the nearly fifty years of brutal privations that Black South Africans endured under apartheid.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 1 June 2025
  • But whereas the first generation of Chinese entrepreneurs grew up poor and were happy to wring a livelihood from cheap imitations, today’s tech graduates were spared the privations of their parents and yearn for something more meaningful.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Duffy will now take charge of the $25 billion NASA budget at a moment when the agency is bracing for deep cuts — a belt-tightening push that echoes some of the controversial cost-cutting measures Musk championed before his departure.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
  • Then there is the entertainment industry at large, which has been in a belt-tightening mode resulting in multiple rounds of layoffs, most recently at Disney and Paramount Global.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 24 June 2025
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“Straitening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straitening. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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