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- adjective
comparative form oftaut : moretaut
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Examples
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He would finger himself here and there, trying to make sure that it was not an illusion that his muscles were growing rounder and his skin tauter.
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
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Bronzino strives for a tighter and tauter fit, verging on the claustrophobic.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010
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It's still a save-the-world-again series, but the budget was upped considerably and the writing grew tauter along with the acting.
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Car buffs will look at the 305 hp, the sub-6-second 0-60 times, the performance-package options (big wheels and tires, tauter suspension) and think, finally, "I'd rather have a V6."
The Power and the Fuel-Sipping Glory Dan Neil 2010
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Pulling … tauter and tauter … “So you liked what you saw?”
Ecstasy in Darkness Gena Showalter 2010
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Car buffs will look at the 305 hp, the sub-6-second 0-60 times, the performance-package options (big wheels and tires, tauter suspension) and think, finally, "I'd rather have a V6."
The Power and the Fuel-Sipping Glory Dan Neil 2010
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It's still a save-the-world-again series, but the budget was upped considerably and the writing grew tauter along with the acting.
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Car buffs will look at the 305 hp, the sub-6-second 0-60 times, the performance-package options (big wheels and tires, tauter suspension) and think, finally, "I'd rather have a V6."
The Power and the Fuel-Sipping Glory Dan Neil 2010
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New York's twice-a-decade contemporary art exhibition is back, tauter and crisper than ever before.
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Car buffs will look at the 305 hp, the sub-6-second 0-60 times, the performance-package options (big wheels and tires, tauter suspension) and think, finally, "I'd rather have a V6."
The Power and the Fuel-Sipping Glory2.73:1 Dan Neil 2010
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