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contract

[kon-trakt, kuhn-trakt] / ˈkɒn trækt, kənˈtrækt /






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The watchmen have been working under a contract extension after their previous agreement expired in July 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The 26-year-old remained at Atletico and has a contract which runs until June 2030.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Under the five-year contract, the banks will support the purchase of chips and infrastructure, which Anthropic will lease to run its AI.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

“Currently, the employer has near unilateral control over what the contract provisions are,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

In law, a covenant is a contract or other agreement between people or groups, in which they agree to do or not do a particular thing.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

That’s a real-world example: A bar owner in Los Angeles used event contracts on Kalshi to pay out if the Dodgers failed to advance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

“Growth is not optional for this company; the contracts assume it,” Rolfes wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

The existing contracts in F1 bind the FIA, teams and commercial rights holder together only until 2030.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

These included reductions in systolic blood pressure, which measures pressure when the heart contracts, and diastolic blood pressure, which measures pressure when the heart relaxes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

One side of her face contracts, an uncoordinated wink, aimed at the camera.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

A Ugandan government spokesperson dismissed the idea that the Swiss woman could have contracted the disease while in the African Great Lakes nation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

“Most of the names that I’m familiar with that are the winners can only supply 70% of contracted demand; 30% is going into backlog.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

Twenty-five Canadian players are contracted for the 2026-27 season, with 11 featuring in July's PWR final between Saracens and Trailfinders.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The eurozone aggregate was dragged down by France, where business activity contracted once again in October.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

For example, in 1837 the Mandan Indian tribe, with one of the most elaborate cultures in our Great Plains, contracted smallpox from a steamboat traveling up the Missouri River from St. Louis.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

However, the team found that fibrin could quickly shrink under the forces exerted by contracting muscle cells, limiting the effectiveness of the resulting movement.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Donald worked as landscape gardener before suffering from a stroke and later contracting Lyme disease after being bitten by a tick.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The woman died Friday after contracting “pneumonia of an unknown cause.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

An opponent of the measure, Rodriguez said the Board of Public Works was established to provide independent review of city contracting, with commissioners’ decisions made in public meetings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Expanding and bursting outward, and contracting and forming inward, it was the rhythm of being—of breathing, of heartbeat, of day and night—and the rhythm of our bodies set off an echo in my mind.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes


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