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
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 Lehrs, Ernst
The operator must not be impatient, for the stream is perfectly passive; since, in consequence of the distension, the bladder has lost its contractive power.
From The Dog by Dinks
It was somewhat more adapted to modern needs, but it retained much of the rigidity of the Catholic marriage without its sacramental character, and it never made any attempt to become more than nominally contractive.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock
There must always be contractive elements, implicit or explicit, in a marriage; that was well recognized even by the Canonists.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock
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