- present participle of contract.
contracting
Example Sentences
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The companies contracting to do the review process receive payments when they reduce costs, which critics have said incentivizes them to deny service.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Lancaster County Coroner Stephen Diamantoni said the underlying condition made the infant especially vulnerable to severe illness after contracting measles.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Karp reserved his sharpest language for what he described as sovereignty in name only: contracting non-US firms to deploy American or Chinese closed models.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
All foreign donors and contracting parties should be identified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
This would lead to all sorts of science-fiction-like possibilities for people who survived from the expanding to the contracting phase.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
