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• n  a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
• n  a tight feeling in some part of the body
  she felt an alarming tightness in her chest
• n  the spatial property of being crowded together
• n  extreme stinginess
• n  lack of movement or room for movement

• There was a fistlike tightness to his argument: bold, peasant-simple, piercing, seductively warm and, for one or two gracious moments, revealing his cheerful, childlike curiosity.
• Mejia describes the massage therapy he received to relieve tightness in his joints as also a form of treatment for his depression.
• The same thing applies if you are currently experiencing any pain, swelling, tightness, cracking or grinding of the knee.

• stringency
• constriction
• concentration
• density
• denseness
• compactness
• meanness
• minginess
• niggardliness
• niggardness
• parsimony
• parsimoniousness
• tightfistedness
• closeness
• tautness

• distribution
• looseness

News & Articles

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• San Antonio Spurs’ Tony Parker to have MRI Wednesday
  Spurs guard Tony Parker experienced tightness in his right hamstring during the Game 3 and will have an MRI on Wednesday morning. Parker said he was questionable for Game 4.
  June 12, 2013 - Miami Herald
• Mets' Harvey leaves with tightness in lower back
  Matt Harvey has left his start against Miami after seven innings with tightness in his lower back. The New York Mets sensation singled in the seventh Saturday and appeared to run somewhat gingerly to second base on an inning-ending groundout.
  June 9, 2013 - WPXI Pittsburgh
• Brandon Barnes out of starting lineup due to hamstring tightness
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Astros center fielder Brandon Barnes was out of the starting lineup one day after he exited with tightness in his left hamstring. Barnes doesn’t expect to be out long with the left hamstring tightness that prompted manager Bo Porter to pull him in the sixth inning Saturday night. “It’s fine,” Barnes said Sunday after arriving at Kauffman Stadium for the series finale against ...
  June 9, 2013 - Houston Chronicle

Quotes

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• Flip Saunders in The Associated Press
  He's got a little bit of tightness in his groin,coach Flip Saunders said. "He kind of slipped on the court and kind of stretched out a little bit in the scrimmage last night so ...... we didn't want to take any chances. We'll see if he...
• Phil Jackson in ESPN
  He wasn't able to move very fluidly the second half,Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. "He had some tightness in the back of his leg. He just said, 'You've got to take me out, I can't run.' And it was obvious at that point that he couldn't....
• Steve Stricker in USA Today
  There is still some tightness or stiffness to it, a twinge here and there. But it was going to be a hard decision to stay home this week and give it another week of rest,said Stricker, who withdrew from the Zurich Classic and The Players...