tighten
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Both restrictions tighten if the rest of the industry follows suit.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
India has frequently restricted agricultural exports when domestic supplies tighten and prices rise.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
“The move could further tighten global oil supplies, with Iranian exports already disrupted and offers to China reduced,” analysts at Saxo Bank said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Authorities have vowed to tighten scrutiny of the island's tourists and crackdown on unruly foreigners.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Tracing my finger against the edge of the orange card, I tighten my mouth.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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
If spending runs above the path, policy tightens.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
But his throat tightens around the words and he feels childish as he says, "Go ahead. Lock it up. See if I care."
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Neither the curfew nor the cap can be changed by a teenager without a parent's approval and the limits can be tightened.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Experts told MarketWatch that the reasons are structural and decades in the making: The 2008 financial downturn led to tightened underwriting standards, making it more difficult for young people to qualify for mortgages.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
In the run-up to the state funeral Tuesday for the man known as “Boss Zhu,” who died last week at age 97, security tightened across Beijing and elsewhere in the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
He also tightened the rules so that serving ministers had to consider "the need to maintain the public's confidence in the standard of propriety" when accepting gifts.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
And Twig made that soothing egg-cracking motion down my back, and my chest tightened.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
And India's decision to import comes as supplies are tightening globally.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
But around 2015, he began to notice a gradual tightening.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
He said that a policymaker who saw underlying inflation accelerating would lean toward tightening but didn’t offer a view on which way he thought it was moving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
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
He fiddled with his gloves, tightening them on his fingers as he rounded the corner.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
