contraction
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Canada entered a technical recession earlier this year, after reporting two consecutive quarters of economic contraction.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Energy Information Administration projects a contraction of 1.2 million barrels a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
That conflict provoked a sharp contraction in the manufacturing economy, with the Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers index falling to 49.1 by mid-2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
This transformative period took root, Mr. Schatz argues, during a moment of historic contraction in the news and entertainment industries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
It’s not that ain’t is used as a standard contraction for negated forms of be, have, and do; no writer is that oblivious.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
However, the same research also connected it with a higher risk of premature ventricular contractions.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Sarah, 41, had been admitted to hospital on 14 September, six days after initially experiencing contractions.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Mr. Goodspeed’s historical record is, in effect, a training data set, with droughts, strikes, shipping disruptions, credit contractions and policy errors, each tagged by type, geography and sequence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
With each step you take, coordinated contractions in your abdominal muscles help keep you stable and upright.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
But at 2 a.m. on Saturday morning the contractions stopped dead.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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