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Recent Examples of tighten
The city of Detroit is tightening its vetting process for fill dirt used at demolition sites.
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Jack Springgate, CBS News, 8 May 2026
Organizers ultimately expanded several booths at the request of returning exhibitors, further tightening the number of galleries that could be accommodated.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 7 May 2026
Analysts had wondered whether consumers would tighten their belts and forgo vacations given the higher travel costs.
—Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
The process continued for many rounds — discs grew, empty space shrank, the growth factor tightened — until the discs could no longer grow.
—Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2026
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Jack Springgate, CBS News, 8 May 2026
Organizers ultimately expanded several booths at the request of returning exhibitors, further tightening the number of galleries that could be accommodated.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 7 May 2026
Analysts had wondered whether consumers would tighten their belts and forgo vacations given the higher travel costs.
—Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
The process continued for many rounds — discs grew, empty space shrank, the growth factor tightened — until the discs could no longer grow.
—Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tighten
Verb
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Instead, he was intrigued by a scene in which Back visibly tensed up after the producers told him he was suspected of being Satoshi.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
9 Apr. 2026
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The slope down to the sidewalk was barely an inch high, but everyone tensed.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
1 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The Moon in Capricorn moves through your 3rd House, opposing Jupiter in your 9th, stretching the gap between details and interpretation.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
7 May 2026
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San Antonio stretched its lead to as many as 47 points on the way to leveling the series at one game apiece.—
Jon Krawczynski,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
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“Tighten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tighten. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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