tightness
Example Sentences
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“Bottom line for the market: Gulf supply remains severely constrained, Saudi’s bypass is no longer the full solution it looked like in March, and the structural tightness is still very much intact.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Coordinated releases of 400 million barrels of emergency crude-oil reserves by International Energy Agency member countries helped alleviate supply tightness.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
England later said she had suffered "tightness" in her left calf - the same leg as the recent injury - and left the field as a precaution.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
Energy inventories are rapidly shrinking, with U.S. crude stocks down 16 million barrels in the latest week, indicating continued near-term tightness.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
The right side of his throat spills weirdly above the tightness of his collar.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
