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Earlier this month, China significantly tightened its restrictions on rare earth elements, which make up a key input in semiconductors found in an array of products from cars to home appliances.—Max Zahn, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2025 The garment tightened at the waist while the top hung relatively loosely, and the midi-length column featured a thigh-high slit.—Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025 As law enforcement efforts tightened along traditional routes, cartels shifted west, taking advantage of the vastness of the Pacific to evade detection.—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025 Separate from the spending crisis, recently enacted federal law changes tightened work requirements for certain SNAP recipients and shifted part of administrative costs to states, scheduled for full implementation by 2026.—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 Sixty-three percent (63%) of respondents say their financial situation has worsened over the past 12 months, and 65% report their grocery budgets have tightened.—Darin Detwiler, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025 Trump hiked tariffs this month after China tightened export restrictions on the materials and has pushed for a supply chain that's independent of the Asian country.—Alex Harring, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025 Belt Most bathrobes are tightened and held together with a self-tie belt, and kimono robes are no exception.—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025 The change represents a shift in how OpenAI approaches content restrictions, which the company had loosened in February but then dramatically tightened after an August lawsuit from parents of a teen who died by suicide after allegedly receiving encouragement from ChatGPT.—ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2025
The interruption to food assistance next month would be one of the most consequential impacts yet of a government shutdown that has now stretched into its fourth week.
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Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
22 Oct. 2025
After a contentious few weeks for city officials, Carmel passed its 2026 budget during a council meeting that stretched on for nearly four hours Monday night.
Last year, Staged to Sell worked on more than a hundred and thirty properties around the city; aesthetic sense is nothing without a firm grasp of logistics.
Martin, who is fifty-four, is the most commercially successful songwriter of the twenty-first century; his work is meticulous and precise, and his songs are taut, balanced, unyielding.
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Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
In a market chock full of unknowns, there is an unyielding rhythm on Wall Street.
When considering his crimes or getting ready to commit another, Chernus’s eyes grow cold, his voice deep and sharp, his body language more taut and authoritative.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025
Its taut construction and metal hardware trace directly back to Demeulemeester’s early experiments with tension and release — the interplay that shaped her gothic romanticism and cemented her place in Antwerp’s avant-garde.
While skinny jeans hug the body tightly from waist to leg, straight-leg jeans tend to be more rigid and fit slightly looser, especially through the lower part of the leg.
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Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
21 Oct. 2025
How underparenting is similar to other parenting styles As with slow parenting, underparenting doesn’t stick to a rigid routine—there is space to change plans and make space in their schedule for downtime.
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