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verb

past tense of contract
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as in agreed
to come to an arrangement as to a course of action the farmer contracted for delivery of the hay by the first of July

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Recent Examples of contracted
Verb
The Public Service Enterprise Group, the company contracted to construct the project, applied Tuesday for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity from the Maryland Public Service Commission. Fox45 News, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2025 Officials said 48 of 95 people (89 were children) in two groups, contracted the disease during a two-week period in June that year. Dan Basso, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2025 If your pet appears sick or may have contracted bird flu, contact your veterinarian. Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 2 Jan. 2025 Through this, the team was able to see that new memories were replayed and cemented in the brain during a fleeting moment in one of the non-REM sleep stage subsets, which corresponded with the animals' pupils appearing contracted. New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025 However, there's no indication any of the people contracted the virus from another human, or spread it to anyone else. Will Stone, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024 The Biden administration has contracted with manufacturers to make almost five million doses of the vaccine. CBS News, 29 Dec. 2024 Firefly is one of several American companies contracted by NASA for lunar missions in the next few months as part of the government agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, or CLPS. Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2024 This resulted in a situation in which anyone having contracted Spanish Flu either died or became immune, slowing the spread of the virus. Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for contracted
Verb
  • The Latino share of the population in that area, a longtime enclave for Puerto Rican families, has shrunk faster than any other group in the last two decades.
    Winnie Hu, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The economy has shrunk by eighty-five per cent during the civil war.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Moreover, this innovative tag compressed 1440 daily measurements into a 12-byte message, which was ultimately sent via a long-range network.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Chu previously explained that the musical's intricate narrative, rich character arcs and iconic musical numbers could be better explored over two films rather than compressed into a single movie.
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • All parties in attendance at the meeting were said to have agreed to Lively's terms for resuming filming, which were described in a 30-bullet-point list.
    KiMi Robinson, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Countries have agreed to try to limit warming to below that level in order to avoid much more intense storms, rainfall and heat waves.
    Lauren Sommer, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Few can match the circumstances of this particular Egg Bowl, in which Ole Miss receiver Elijah Moore caught an apparent tying touchdown from Matt Corral with four seconds left and celebrated by impersonating a dog urinating in the end zone.
    Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • On a different topic but related tangent, even lawyers have gotten caught off-guard by overly relying on AI to provide legal expertise when the AI was completely mistaken, see my analysis at the link here.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Yet the portion of Americans who drink has shrunk in recent years.
    Ivana Saric, Axios, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Your workout window shrunk to 30 minutes, then 20, then 10.
    Hilary Achauer, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • These interviews have been edited and condensed.
    K.J. Yossman, Variety, 24 Dec. 2024
  • This Zoom interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and brevity.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Another catchy song with elongated, ethereal harmonies that capture the temptation of infidelity.
    Bryan West, The Tennessean, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Worm lizards are well adapted for underground life, with elongated bodies, reduced or no limbs, rudimentary eyes and tough, ring-like scales.
    Newsweek, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Doing so will help increase group morale and inflate an attenuated potency.
    Charlie Winter, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
  • The traditional means of video-game storytelling—cutscenes, voice-over narration, and conversations with other characters—are present only in the most attenuated, enigmatic forms.
    Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024

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“Contracted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contracted. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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