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  • adjective comparative form of taut: more taut

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Examples

  • 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

  • Bronzino strives for a tighter and tauter fit, verging on the claustrophobic.

    Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010

  • It's still a save-the-world-again series, but the budget was upped considerably and the writing grew tauter along with the acting.

    DVDs: I Heart "Firefly" 2010

  • 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

  • Pulling … tauter and tauter … “So you liked what you saw?”

    Ecstasy in Darkness Gena Showalter 2010

  • 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

  • It's still a save-the-world-again series, but the budget was upped considerably and the writing grew tauter along with the acting.

    Michael Giltz: DVDs: I Heart "Firefly" 2010

  • 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

  • New York's twice-a-decade contemporary art exhibition is back, tauter and crisper than ever before.

    ARTINFO: In New York: Gallery Openings This Weekend 2010

  • 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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