tighten
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Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered immediate measures to tighten gun control, suspending the discount purchase scheme and the issuing of all purchase licences.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The “Anything But Bonds” trope will only end, Hartnett contends, if Warsh signals hawkish at the Jackson Hole symposium Aug. 28, and both the Fed and Bank of Japan tighten monetary policy in September.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
A proposed bill to tighten safety protocols at stone fabrication shops and publish reports of compliance was put on hold in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Tractor Supply is lowering prices, scaling back expansion and cutting its financial targets as customers tighten their budgets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
If I could get some thread, maybe I could tighten the waist and make her torn dress into a blouse.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
Now, it means showing up to support them as immigration enforcement tightens its grip.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
From here, returns will depend less on who reports the biggest backlog than on who can keep shipping when supply catches up — or when Beijing tightens the gate.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
To complicate matters, Klee, in 1935, began to suffer from the then‑fatal autoimmune disease scleroderma, which hardens and tightens the skin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
He has played 410 minutes, the second fewest of the four leading contenders, which could become decisive if the race tightens.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
My heart tightens like a claw grips it.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
Meanwhile in Ranchi, visuals from the state capital show thousands of protesters, police as well as media personnel on the streets, amid tightened security arrangements.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Refined metal has repriced; approved wafer supply has tightened enough to turn a quarterly loss into an $11.1 million profit within a year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Beijing, which considers Tibet an inalienable part of its territory, has only tightened its control since.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
It said it tightened its seller vetting process, introduced a policy to reimburse buyers who win high-value items that sellers fail to deliver and mandated that all repack boxes be manufacturer-sealed and verified before sale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
While May grabbed the Mirror and his grandfather’s bag to get them out of the way, Jack tightened his grip on the reins.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
Minutes of the meeting, released after a routine three-week lag, showed that "many" of their peers "assessed that policy tightening would likely be necessary if inflation did not decline."
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Bank Indonesia kept its benchmark seven-day reverse repo rate unchanged at 5.75%, in line with expectations and following back-to-back tightening in May and June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Prices of copper have jumped to a record high amid tightening global supplies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
He expects that when Warsh makes his address at the Jackson Hole economic policy symposium on August 28, he must confirm tightening lies ahead.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
This principle of ever-more-exact measurement derives from Tycho Brahe; in tightening up the relationship between evidence and theory in physics, Galileo was extrapolating from the practices of the astronomers.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
