contracting

Example Sentences

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The Pentagon’s “cost plus” contracting encourages tweaks and new bells and whistles for different military services and launchers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

The data suggest that contracting hantavirus is rare, said Dr. Afif El-Hasan, a member of the American Lung Assn.’s national board of directors.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

At the party, I met 27-year-old Connor Mcleod, who was trying to get a crisis response contracting business called Harm off the ground.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

“There’s a cost, and ethics and contracting questions that all come up whenever you mention anything with the border wall,” Amey said.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

In an expanding universe in which the density of matter varied slightly from place to place, gravity would have caused the denser regions to slow down their expansion and start contracting.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking