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  • verb Present participle of retighten.

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Examples

  • The retightening of screws and bolts during durability tests on cribs ends Tuesday, as part of the new rule approved last year by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

    Strict new safety codes for cribs go into effect 2011

  • Yet not retightening the screws will mean the end of Putinism as Russian television begins to report the real state of affairs in the country, the Duma starts to demand investigations of corruption at the top, and freer courts try hundreds of corrupt officials and Putin cronies.

    As the Ice Cracks Under Putin, What Will He Do? Leon Aron 2011

  • The retightening of screws and bolts during durability tests on cribs ends Tuesday, as part of the new rule approved last year by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

    Strict new safety codes for cribs go into effect 2011

  • With these thoughts is going to come a retightening of your various facial muscles.

    The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010

  • With these thoughts is going to come a retightening of your various facial muscles.

    The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010

  • With these thoughts is going to come a retightening of your various facial muscles.

    The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010

  • With these thoughts is going to come a retightening of your various facial muscles.

    The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010

  • He opens the relief port then—a small funnel-shaped urinal dumping to the vacuum of space—and drains his bladder, before retightening the straps connecting him to the command chair.

    Orbit John J. Nance 2006

  • He opens the relief port then—a small funnel-shaped urinal dumping to the vacuum of space—and drains his bladder, before retightening the straps connecting him to the command chair.

    Orbit John J. Nance 2006

  • Ronnie is tightening and retightening his hi-hat, John is restringing his Les Paul, and Gerry and I are staring fixedly at the parts and making sure that there are no hidden surprises.

    Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

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