contractive
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The current economic context suggests the board should maintain a contractive stance on monetary policy to bring inflation towards the target, the report added.
From Reuters ● Aug. 3, 2023
The gas burner is made of a metal having great expansive and contractive properties.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various
And the forms of the cumuli themselves tell us in manifold metamorphoses of a state of equilibrium between expansive and contractive tendencies within the atmosphere.
From Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs
And the doctor, by sundry tests and applications, showed the peculiar exhausted and contractive condition of the muscles.
From Master of His Fate by J. Mclaren Cobban
The contractive view, which still largely persists even to-day, speedily took over much of the Canon law doctrines of marriage, becoming in practice a kind of reformed and secularized Canon law.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis
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