tightknit
Britishadjective
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closely integrated
a tightknit community
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organized carefully and concisely
Example Sentences
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When protests broke out to oust the Shah, she showed up for her community, a tightknit cluster of graduate students who were frustrated by his extravagance and tyranny.
Borchgrevink said Epstein seemed to have proven adept at making connections in Norway, a country of 5.6 million where trust within a tightknit community opened lots of doors and whose role as a diplomatic player provided a web of global contacts.
With $2.6 billion in assets under management, HoldCo is a bank-focused fund whose brazen approach has clashed with many in the tightknit industry.
Some treasured the tightknit work environment, as well as Fibrebond’s perks.
So to an extent, the market could be self-correcting on the same premise now, given all the focus that’s come on the tightknit AI economy.
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