Contract
Contract verb - To become affected with (a disease or disorder).
Expanded
Expanded adjective - Increased in extent or size or bulk or scope.
Both words in one sentence
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In one Star Trek Expanded Universe novels, Wesley Crusher ends up selling himself into slavery by signing a Ferengi contract without reading.
Source: Read the Fine Print -
And before anyone says that her stories are no longer canon, the Expanded Universe had the situation covered before her contract had even finished.
Source: Writer on Board -
While the Expanded Universe novels got away with referencing the cartoons, in 1989 Paramount put into its contract with DC Comics that writers could not use or reference the cartoon, much to writer Peter David's horror.
Source: Canon Discontinuity
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Expanded and Contract. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/contract/expanded
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