Antonyms for contractingcon·tract·ing

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1. • Acquiring

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1. catching, contractingnoun

   becoming infected

   "catching cold is sometimes unavoidable"; "the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic"

   Synonyms:
   spying, espial, spotting, catching, detection

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1. contractingadjective

   Synonyms:
   astringent, puckering, contractile

How to use contracting in a sentence?

1. Adam Dickinson:

   It was pretty incredible and really hard to describe, it almost looked like a load of muscles contracting. It was clear the creature, which Dickinson later discovered was alion's mane jellyfish— the largest species of jellyfish in the world— wasn't dead. It's alive, Dickinson's son confirmed. The family stared at the jellyfish, and sure enough, it continued to move.

2. Scott Burris:

   If it was a case where someone was well known to have a rich sex life, there would be an argument that (the plaintiff) too was negligent in not insisting upon protection, or that they had assumed the risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease.

3. Joe Rundle:

   The PMI was below 50, which is a psychologically important level and puts into real focus the fact that China is contracting.

4. Anuja Dokras:

   I had some of these underlying symptoms, my body was able to just manage them to a point for most of my life, and then contracting Covid really just wiped out all of my body's defenses and ability to regulate anything.

5. Brandon Cordy:

   The inventory of available titles, while still vast, had been contracting some over the years with some movies that were once available no longer being so, turnaround times to get a new movie or movies also started to take longer, so I knew it was only a matter of time. But I didn’t want it to end if I could help it.

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