tightly
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Freezing the liquid core, however, creates an exceptionally dense and tightly confined environment.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
You’d anticipate moments like that to be embellished with improv, but it’s all tightly scripted.“Of all the TV comedies I’ve worked on, this one has the most already on the page,” says DeYoung.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Nvidia’s new partnerships with financial players help mitigate concerns that the company is too tightly linked to its customers, according to BofA and Morgan Stanley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Through the trunks, we get the occasional glimpse of the razed farmland which tightly fences this pocket of protected woodland.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The other group was told to hold their rope tightly to make sure the obelisk did not get pulled too far upright and topple over.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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