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adjective • in or of a state of physical or nervous tension • pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') • taut or rigid; stretched tight noun • a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time verb • become stretched or tense or taut • increase the tension on • become tense, nervous, or uneasy • cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | ||||||||
| 29% | 8 | Believed to represent the present of the past, present, and future | ||||||
noun • goddess of fate: an elf who personified the present | ||||||||
| 28% | 6 | Author who asked, 'Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past' | ||||||
noun • imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) | ||||||||
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TENSE which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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TENSE
Updated: October 10, 2023
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