tightened

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For my 40th birthday, I’d decided to treat myself to a special trip—joining the women worldwide who fly to South Korea for beauty treatments involving salmon DNA, ultrasound tighteners and lots of lasers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Other beauty treatments — skin lighteners, skin tighteners, wrinkle reducers — have known side effects and complications, too.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2022

But doctors say the moisturizers, tighteners and abrasive scrubs make little discernible difference.

From Time Magazine Archive

The patent described thread tighteners above and below the work and an adjustment to vary the stitches for different kinds of material.

From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers

The resistance offered by the introduction of carrying pulleys and tighteners is appreciable, and depends upon the pressure brought to bear against their journals.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua