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as in thick
not allowing penetration (as by gas, liquid, or light) the lid forms a tight seal with the canister that will keep the spices fresh

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as in narrow
showing little difference in the standing of the competitors a tight race for governor

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Recent Examples of tight With Hailey leaning hard into her strawberry-girl moment, the budding skin care guru wore a tight red cocktail dress to a Rhode event, while Justin wore…sweats. Stacey Leasca, Glamour, 21 Jan. 2025 Badosa, seeded 11th at this year’s Australian Open, won a tight first set after breaking Gauff’s serve at 5-5, producing a superb backhand volley and following it up with a crushing forehand winner on the next point. George Ramsay, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025 The tight labor market has driven up wages, particularly in industrial areas. Alexandra Prokopenko, Foreign Affairs, 21 Jan. 2025 Steichen’s tight lips, Zaire Franklin’s podcast and an anonymous Colts player who voiced his frustrations to the media. James Boyd, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for tight 
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  • Electric motors are dense hunks of metal, thus are heavy; power cables thick enough to carry the heavy electron flow needed to generate hundreds of horsepower are also not light.
    Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Some of the cables he’s found are as thick as a pinky finger and, when attached to the right tree, are strong enough to anchor an elephant calf.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • Sophie’s own child, Aud Mason-Hyde, is one of the main actors, which adds another layer of things as a close personal story.
    Dan Allen, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Musk stews over Stargate As one of President Trump’s closest allies, Elon Musk was expected to reap a huge advantage over his rivals.
    Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • Profile: Dilly Dally was a stray who was taken to a crowded shelter in Imperial Valley and was then transferred to Rancho Coastal Humane Society through Friends of County Animal Shelters.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Shot in Delhi during the post-COVID period, the production faced logistical challenges, particularly while filming in crowded railway stations.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
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  • The large table serves as the primary crafting area; the narrow wood desk is her workstation.
    Ella Field, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Think narrow sections with extra weight in the middle to give you more control for day-to-day styling at home.
    Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 25 Jan. 2025
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  • 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
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  • The sense of disharmony is immediate: a familiar scene of youth and learning is grimly debased into one of peril.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
  • And after one stop in Baltimore, that tour returns to its familiar home at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2025
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  • Since hair is weakest when wet, sleeping in wet hair can cause hair to become dry and brittle, causing split ends, breakage, and fallout.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Southern California’s status quo is extreme swings between dry and wet, the UCLA researchers noted, but the lack of rainfall since May 2024 was exceptional.
    Angela Fritz, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025
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  • Pepe has been Portugal’s bedrock for almost two decades, a scratching, impermeable presence who won 141 caps for his country, and was central to their first major trophy at Euro 2016.
    Jacob Whitehead, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Clay deposits, forming an impermeable layer, result in waterlogged soil.
    David Bressan, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024

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“Tight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tight. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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