Example Sentences

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Super users are contracting out their work to groups of “agents,” amping up their productivity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

“If we are contracting spending, then I would think inflation would be dropping. If inflation is dropping, then the Fed should be cutting rates,” Bessent told CNN on Nov. 2.

From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025

Catherine Flutsch, CEO of Ark-T, said staff "from junior right up to the CEOs are absolutely exhausted... the need is rising, the funds are contracting and we're trying to hold our communities together".

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2025

As a result, according to medical professionals familiar with Camp Río, migrants are contracting communicable gastrointestinal and skin diseases, including fatal infections like cholera.

From Slate • May 11, 2023

When Ptolemy Philadelphus married his sister Arsinoe, Sotades said, "You are contracting an unholy marriage."

From Plutarch's Morals by Shilleto, Arthur Richard