tightly

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Wynter was delivered "in poor condition" with the umbilical cord "wrapped tightly around her leg and neck".

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026

A fierce advocate of information control, he argued that the internet had to be tightly managed, likening new technologies to “a wild colt” that “can and must be controlled.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026

"Our findings show that biological and geological carbon cycles are tightly linked," says Jan Karlsson, professor at Department of Ecology, Environment and Geoscience at Umeå University.

From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026

Fellow economists Marina Gertsberg, Ekaterina Volkova and I found that the disgraced financier effectively wired corporate America into a denser, more tightly interconnected network.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2026

The other group was told to hold their rope tightly to make sure the obelisk did not get pulled too far upright and topple over.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman