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straitening

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verb

present participle of straiten

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for straitening
Verb
  • State governments, as well as drug manufacturers, provide financial help to the uninsured, often reducing the cost of PrEP medicines to zero.
    James K. Glassman, Boston Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Device lifecycle management and repair services will become increasingly important, reducing the amount of technology that ends up in landfills.
    Max Silber, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Midway through the film, an I.E.D. explodes just outside the apartment building, and the sequence that follows, in which the survivors gradually regain consciousness, is a tour de force of sensory deprivation and temporal dislocation.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
  • While some hardship builds character, suffering extreme deprivation does not guarantee success.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Out of the privation, the challenge, and the censure of slavery and the unfulfilled promise of post-Reconstruction justice, Black musicians embraced experimentation and innovation, ingenuity and joy, and a multigenerational call and response speaking truth to power that endures to the present day.
    Elizabeth Alexander, Time, 1 Apr. 2025
  • As a prisoner of war, Morris R. Wills faced a gamut of privations—he was left malnourished and consigned to filthy conditions amid the ever-present threat of execution.
    Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Last month, Columbia’s medical school implemented a hiring freeze and other belt-tightening measures in anticipation of the cuts.
    Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Kane County has been on a belt-tightening budget for many years.
    Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Straitening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straitening. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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