constrained
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With shipping through Hormuz severely constrained, Saudi Arabia has been rerouting crude exports via its East-West pipeline to the Red Sea port of Yanbu.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
“North America is likely to see a predominantly price-driven adjustment, with widening segmentation between resilient network carriers and more constrained low-cost operators,” it added.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Because the process occurs entirely within the plane of the material, it also avoids several efficiency limitations that have constrained earlier detector designs.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
Under normal circumstances, oil prices could have risen “substantially,” given the scale of the disruption, including the closure of the strait, constrained Iranian crude supply and declining global inventories, Innes said.
From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026
A constrained trio lingered after Rachel had climbed the stairs behind her husband.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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