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Recent Examples of taut Watch on Hulu The Royal Hotel Ozark star Julia Garner reunites with director Kitty Green (The Assistant) for this taut psychological thriller in which BFFs Hanna (Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) decide to backpack their way through the Australian outback. Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2024 Advertisement Like a taut earthquake fault that too often unbelts itself and cuts loose with repellent force, a deep lode of hate and racist one-upmanship undergirds Southern California. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024 But unlike explorations of this taut dynamic before it, Mangold’s film subtly grapples with what exactly this taking looks like. Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 23 Dec. 2024 Along with a fine script (also by the Coens) and some taut direction, No Country for Old Men is benefited to an incalculable degree with its trio of lead actors. Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for taut 

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“Taut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/taut. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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