tighten

Example Sentences

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This problem has emerged as the central bank has embarked on successive attempts at quantitative tightening—shrinking its balance sheet by allowing bonds to run off the asset side of the ledger.

From The Wall Street Journal

The crackdown on “dark fleet” tankers is likely to tighten effective crude tanker supply, boosting demand for tonnage of compliant very-large crude carriers, the analysts note.

From The Wall Street Journal

Newsrooms responded by tightening restraint, not loosening it.

From Salon

Yet the odds are high that this is the bank’s last tightening move for a while—perhaps a long while.

From Barron's

Yet the odds are high that this is the bank’s last tightening move for a while—perhaps a long while.

From Barron's