tight
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“It got a little tight but once he got through, he battled and we just got outrun.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
There has also been speculation that Burnham wants to weaken the Treasury's traditionally tight grip on policies across government.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Miss Yodle, the family’s uptight neighbor, styles her hair “in tight little braids twisted around her skull, giving her head the air of a victim.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Sit tight, and you’re living on the coupon with no way to reposition and nothing maturing soon enough to bail you out.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
I gripped the post so tight that my palm squeaked as I circled around.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
"Recent data have reduced the immediate need for tighter policy, giving Warsh room to re-establish the Fed's inflation-fighting message without signalling imminent action," he wrote.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
While trends should begin to brighten in China–where tighter rules on boozing among public officials have hit cognac sales–the outlook in the U.S. market remains worrying for the group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The government has blamed lower sugarcane production linked to reduced rainfall during El Niño, hoarding and tighter global supplies after adverse weather hit other major producers.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The tighter the binary, the shorter the orbital period and the faster a tidally locked star must rotate.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
But with each word that left Lev’s mouth, my grip on the sponge grew tighter.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
In February, for instance, the U.S.-Japan 2-year-yield spread was the tightest since early 2022.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
They are sticky and chewy, each bite of fruit managing to get stuck in between the tightest crevices of your teeth.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Now, supply is the tightest it has ever been and memory prices have skyrocketed.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
He took the ball in the tightest of spaces and appeared to have the whole of Wembley to himself.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
On Monday, the twentieth of April, under the tightest of security, we were taken to the Palace of Justice, this time to begin our defense.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
