tight
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Take the ball in tight spaces, be aware of the danger, keep composed and move out of trouble.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Rodriguez had a hunch he might propose because they had formed such a tight bond during their overseas trip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Yet the central bank maintained tight monetary policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Realized volatility and implied volatility are getting really tight, and there’s probably not much room for them to tighten further,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Too loose and he’d slip out, too tight and he wouldn’t be able to move.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
Martin described Gen Z as one of the first generations in recent memory to come of age facing markedly tighter economic circumstances.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
He alluded to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, who have called for tighter controls on the technology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Worsening loan performance and increased scrutiny from investors have led to tighter standards across the private-credit industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
"People haven't got the resources to sit in a pub for three or four hours and enjoy themselves. I get the impression people are holidaying on a tighter budget."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The newspaper goes down and the big caterpillar eyebrows scrunch even tighter.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
“Source Foundry tackles the tightest bottleneck: tooling for semiconductor manufacturing, starting in lithography.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
In February, for instance, the U.S.-Japan 2-year-yield spread was the tightest since early 2022.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Rather than a shootout or penalty kicks, the championship was decided by a single moment of quality in one of the tournament’s tightest contests.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Now, supply is the tightest it’s ever been and memory prices have skyrocketed.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
He stared at it briefly, then inserted his four-year-old letter in the middle pages, where the stapling in a manuscript is tightest.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
