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The timeline for election administrators to think through the issue before November is tight, and it poses challenges for offices that already are stretched thin preparing for other possible election-day scenarios.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Some investors have worried about the tight financial relationships between Nvidia and its customers, but analysts say that newly announced partnerships should put those worries to rest for now.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
I have like four ponytails in my head and it’s tight and I’m going to regret it when I get older but for an hour it needs to stick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
"All my strength and love to my homeland. Let’s hold each other tight," said Colombian pop megastar Shakira.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
She laughs, then makes a beeline for the lawn in front of the stage, the blanket grasped tight in her arms as she runs to find a spot near the front.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
He alluded to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, who have called for tighter controls on the technology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The case for tighter policy also received less help from last week’s employment report, which showed no sign of reaccelerating demand for labor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
That kind of cars-and-rockets tie-up—the subject of widespread speculation among investors, and hinted at by Musk himself—would likely give him the tighter control he has long sought at Tesla.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The supply of HBM is getting tighter, and pricing for HBM4 and HBM4E is “even stronger than our prior expectations,” UBS’s Arcuri said in a note.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
But instead, I squeeze the labels tighter in my hand and try to ignore the karate-chopping in my stomach.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
Series creator Christopher Storer conveys this in the briefest, tightest shots of hands lovingly plating food, as well as in panoramic views of the series as a whole.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 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
Liberty has less than a year to replace 75% of its electricity supply in one of the tightest wholesale power markets in the West.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 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
