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 doctor, by sundry tests and applications, showed the peculiar exhausted and contractive condition of the muscles.
From Master of His Fate by Cobban, J. Mclaren
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
Even if marriage is placed on the most prosaic contractive basis it is a mistake, and indeed an impossibility, to pre-ordain the length of its duration.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock
In like manner, sulphur represents the active and passive principle of fire: the contractive force, or negative electricity—oxygen—produces flame; and the dilative force, or positive electricity—hydrogen—produces warmth.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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