constrain
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Stanton writes in a note that the Integro CI sound processor from Sonova-owned Advanced Bionics could modestly constrain Australia-listed Cochlear’s share of processor upgrades and new system wins in selected European markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
"By revealing this previously hidden soft X-ray phase, Einstein Probe opens a new window for studying neutron star merger remnants and may ultimately help constrain the neutron star equation-of-state."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
It has tried to meet the human-defined objectives set out before it through a path its designers failed to constrain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
“You don’t want to get into a situation where you constrain your own products in the years to come because you were giving away the compute forever,” Johnsen added.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
The term ‘relativism’ is contentious, but I use it, rather than ‘constructivism’, because I want to refer to those who hold that reality does not constrain the beliefs we can hold about the real world.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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It also constrains certain theories involving extra spatial dimensions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Mark Joseph Stern: Because Congress did something that was long overdue—it wrote a statute that tightly constrains the executive branch.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025
No law, domestic or international, constrains him, as far as the convicted felon is concerned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
Mr. Mitchell sees virtue in how diplomacy mitigates costs and constrains violence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
A striking example of Bloor’s inability to acknowledge that nature constrains science is to be found on p.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Another point Privorotsky makes is that if the expansion of future compute is constrained, then the value of existing, energized compute rises as a consequence.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Electric bikes can dramatically reduce operating costs for high-mileage riders, it said, although expansion was constrained by the same foreign-exchange shortages affecting the wider economy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The goal of expanding the chip lineup is to give customers more flexibility and choice as AI compute continues to be constrained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
However, Cambricon’s continued margin expansion is consistent with the strong demand and improved bargaining power for domestic artificial-intelligence fabless suppliers amid constrained supply, they note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Malvonne could feel the wall of life pressed up against the woman’s palms; feel her hands bashed tender from pounding it; her hips constrained by the clutch of small children.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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"As a result, they've become textbook examples of convergent evolution, which can tell us a lot about the processes driving and constraining adaptive change in response to similar environmental cues."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
He added that “when people hand off tasks to agents, more calls and texts can be made as a person’s attention & time are no longer constraining factors.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Despite its growth so far, Goodles’s relatively small size was constraining further expansion, according to Zeszut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Huang noted more than once that capacity, not demand, is constraining Nvidia’s growth—it projected 70% revenue growth for fiscal 2028.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
It was clear that a way had to be found to capture the profits of laboratory discoveries without undermining academic standards or constraining scientific inquiry.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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