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How to pronounce “contracting”
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Pronunciation guide for contracting
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of contracting with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Why Change Is So Scary — and How to Unlock Its Potential
it's easy to feel that our lives are contracting,
- Definition summary
- present participle and gerund of contract
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce contracting
Why Change Is So Scary — and How to Unlock Its Potential
it's easy to feel that our lives are contracting,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “contracting”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- present participle and gerund of contract
- [Adjective]
- Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area.
- [Noun]
- The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction.
- Work done on a contract basis.
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Similar Sounds
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