Contractive

On recent conference calls, we told you about our decision to increase near-term contractive positions to add predictability to adjusted EBITDA. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Macrobiotics categorizes foods as "expansive" or "contractive" -- the yin and yang, respectively, of macrobiotic eating.

This is a contractive strategy in general, but gives prominence to the Asia-Pacific region. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Foods that grow downward into the earth, like carrots, are dense and contractive. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This concept of Umtrieb is worth reflecting on, since it refers not to any specific drive such as eros or thanatos, to take Žižek's narrower gloss on the expansive and contractive forces, but to the very structure of drive as a ❋ Unknown (2008)

As such the annular drive conditions all specific drives, and outlines a space for history very different from the "electromagnetic orgasm" that is Martin Wallen's topological figure for the relation between expansive and contractive forces in Schelling's "cosmic history" ❋ Unknown (2008)

The cold pulls out toxins in the contractive phase and the heat brings blood and nutrients in the expansive phase. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the mean-velocity Doppler model, the blueshift acceleration experienced by the travelling photon is essentially the same contractive gravitational acceleration experienced by the galaxies in the Hubble Flow, so the photon does not experience any gravitational time dilation which differs from the underlying time dilation inherent in the FLRW metric. ❋ Sean (2008)

But he argues that the West, far from a monolithic bulwark against "diversity," is "the mongrel civilization par excellence"; the systole and diastole of contractive monoculturalism and expansive multiculturalism are its heartbeat. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The spirits are simply the expansive and ghosts, the contractive forces of the world. ❋ Tucker, John (2008)

Fitch then proposed a “non-contractive” logic, but his paper did not go beyond a brief sketch of a fragment of classical logic with predicates. ❋ Cantini, Andrea (2007)

For in cold the contractive motion is checked by a resisting tendency to expand, just as in heat the expansive motion is checked by a resisting tendency to contract. ❋ Unknown (2005)

On account of the agreement and conformity of the similar effects which are wrought by heat and cold, reject motion of the body as a whole, whether expansive or contractive. ❋ Unknown (2005)

For heat gives an expansive and dilating, cold a contractive and condensing motion. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The gas burner is made of a metal having great expansive and contractive properties. ❋ Various (N/A)

Mr.A. found a higher efficiency in this vessel per horse power than any other in the Navy, and consequently based the consumption of coal in the table on the assumption that the mail and passenger vessels generally should be of as good contractive type as "Rattler." ❋ Thomas Rainey (N/A)

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. ❋ Ernst Lehrs (N/A)

As the native and exotic herbs of this tea are dried in a pure air, without any artificial means of preparation to improve their colour or increase their natural astringency, they must be free from those deleterious, corrosive, and violent contractive effects with which we have observed the general and indiscriminate use of foreign teas and mineral waters are attended. ❋ Hugh Smith (N/A)

And the doctor, by sundry tests and applications, showed the peculiar exhausted and contractive condition of the muscles. ❋ J. Mclaren Cobban (N/A)

"[I'm sorry], I can't [go out] tonight. I have to [study] for Contracts." ❋ Are Jonnson (2006)

For cooperating with [the police], [I'm going to] [put out a contract on] his head. ❋ GF Ed (2005)

Friend: I broke my [contract]. You: [Prepare] your [Gooty Hole]. ❋ Dhughes (2016)

Dave [swore] he was over his [ex-girlfriend], but the words he kept putting on UD about her were contractions- he was [projecting] again. ❋ Meadow Soprano (2005)

Yo, Patrick has a contract with the movie and TV unit, he can [hook you up] with some [secret squirrel], cash [ot]! ❋ Weaselworm (2019)

Those bastards have [set up] a contract and are [targeting] the Former [Governor]. ❋ The Return Of Light Joker (2009)

My girlfriend has [put out] [four times] this week, I just know that I'm going to have to pay [the contract] soon. ❋ JediAndi (2005)

Man, [I don't know] how to use [contractable] in a [sentence]. ❋ TREEDOM VELLACROIX (2018)

I combined two existing legitimate words to create [a new word] with a similar or conjoined meaning. Effective-Applicable [Efficable]. Contraction of things to become more [dense]. such as dense meaning or dense information aka Data. ❋ Onsofo (2018)

I met this hot girl, she seemed [to be down] [for the cause], then at the end of the night she got a text and had to run home to The [Contract]! Typical! ❋ OldManRealist (2018)