Sentence examples for As a contraction from inspiring English sources

The contractible thermosyphon, which has a metal bellows as a contraction component, is proposed to completely eliminate such a heat leak through the wall by mechanical detachment of the thermosyphon at low pressure.

The key episode, first broadcast in 1970, featured a sketch called "SPAM": the brand name used since 1937 by the Hormel Foods Corporation as a contraction of the phrase spiced ham.

In the first, run in 2014, the Bank had focused on risk to UK households while in 2015 on global risks, such as a contraction in China and parts of the eurozone.

(He gave credit for the word's invention to his colleague John Tukey, at what was then Bell Telephone Laboratories, who coined it as a contraction of the phrase "binary digit").

Federal Reserve officials, who have cut rates four times since August including sharp reductions twice last month, are predicting that the economy will escape a true recession — usually defined as a contraction in activity that lasts for at least two back-to-back quarters.

But the Definers pitch stands as a contraction.

As well, a contraction of the large wind field reaffirmed that Otto was entering the final stages of its tropical transition.

Simply put, without the cushion provided by a massive injection of government spending we are in serious trouble -- as in a contraction the likes of which we haven't seen since the early 1980s and probably before.

Thursday ≡ FOUR'Sday ≡ 4. Friday ≡ FIVEday ≡ 5. Saturday ≡ SIXAday ≡ 6. Sunday ≡ SE'ENday ≡ 7 ("se'en" as in a contraction for "seven" that sounds like "sun").

But she said people would look back on the recession that began two years ago and see that "it wasn't as sharp a contraction as some people had anticipated".

As such, a contraction in GDP in at least one of the next few quarters cannot be ruled out.