Monica Potter

Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.

American Actress

Pico Iyer

Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?

Indian Writer

Christy Turlington

As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.

American Model

Mary Helen Bowers

A lot of fitness is about contractions - you're doing squats, or you're on a bike and your knees are bending but never stretching all the way, so your muscles get strengthened but look short and thick.

American Dancer

Charles Dallara

Greece's unprecedented fiscal effort, which was more than planned, has triggered much larger contractions of economic activity and the tax base than the original program had assumed.

American Businessman

Charles Scott Sherrington

In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.

British Scientist

Edmund Phelps

Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.

American Economist

Ibrahim Babangida

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Nigerian Statesman

Madonna Ciccone

I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor.

American Musician

James Surowiecki

The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply.

American Journalist

Contraction refers to a physical decrease in size or length, often due to temperature changes.

Physical Change

Observe contraction through changes like a balloon shrinking when cooled.

Observable Effect

Grammar contractions make sentences shorter and speech more efficient.

Speech Efficiency

Contractions are often used in informal speaking and writing.

Colloquial Speech

In medicine, contraction can be involuntary, like those during childbirth.

Bodily Reaction

Learning to time contractions helps anticipate childbirth's progress.

Sign of Labor

An economic contraction signifies a country's business activity is reducing.

Economic Indicator

A contraction may lead to higher unemployment and decreased consumer spending.

Job Market Impact

 Also, you start to get these sort of contractions and weird whistling sounds, all of which mean that real laughter is extremely easy, or feels extremely easy to spot. In contrast, posed laughter, we might think it sounds a bit fake. Actually, it's not, it's actually an important social cue. We use it a lot, we're choosing to laugh in a lot of situations,

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 And because the expansion and contraction causes their brightness to vary, we can calculate their luminosity by measuring the period of this cycle, with more luminous stars changing more slowly. By comparing the light we observe from these stars to the intrinsic brightness we've calculated this way,

Light seconds, light...

 come in and help let's find out if he really wants it the fitness industry produces 17 billion dollars a year in revenue even during periods of economic contraction people are still interested in their health and their well-being this is a massive industry with tremendous opportunity

Keeping the Gym in Shape...

 on and off, for the last five hours. We've just finished a period where there was a couple of hours of not really much activity. She's just getting to the point now where she's having some pretty regular and strong contractions. Kaitlyn is entering the advanced stages of labour.

Birth of Twin Tiger Cubs...

 Delighted by his invention, Frank begins making the frozen treat for friends, and as he grows older, begins selling them as Eppsicles, a contraction of his last name and the word icicle. It is rumored that later, Frank's own kids dubbed the icy delicacy Pop's 'cicle.

How the popsicle was...

 and their large inflatable organs called laryngeal sacs. We don't know this for sure because it's essentially impossible to observe the internal organs of a living, singing whale, but we think that when a whale sings, muscular contractions in the throat and chest

Why do whales sing? -...

 monitor I worked on with a firm in Barcelona called zinc and it could let a woman know what's happening inside her belly when she's pregnant and contract contractions and also send that information to a doctor and I even got to work on a robot so when I was at

3D printing to bring...

 we've just finished a period where there's a couple of hours of not really much activity she's just getting to the point now where she's having some pretty regular and strong contractions caitlin is entering the advanced stages of labor

Adorable Tiger Cub...

 allowing the virus to proliferate. Starting anywhere from two to twenty days after contraction, initial symptoms like high temperature, aching, and sore throat resemble those of a typical flu, but quickly escalate to vomiting,

What we know (and don't...

 The apostrophe can be used in three to mark possession, to mark contraction, to mark the plural of single letters. Most of the time, if you see an apostrophe hovering helpfully near a word,