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“Moreover, the rapidly increasing equity supply expected over the coming quarters, alongside potentially tighter monetary policy, could constrain equity multiples,” the strategists said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

"This will constrain whoever is Prime Minister following a potential leadership challenge after Andy Burnham's win in the Makerfield by-election."

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

Although such measures are meant to provide additional context, they do little to constrain the upward drift of grades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Analysts note that the valuation Anthropic sets will constrain OpenAI’s ability to set its own price when it goes public.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self-approbation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say:

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

The state’s limited refinery capacity makes it more vulnerable to crude price shocks, and its mandate for anti-smog gas formulations in the summer also constrains gas supplies, pushing prices higher.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

Treating them as something society can simply “pause” doesn’t reduce demand for digital services; it constrains the supply of compute, raising costs and outsourcing technological progress elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 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

Barron’s: Your latest research on immigration focuses on what happens when constrains are put on the availability of skilled foreign workers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 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

Over the next three decades, sea level rise pathways are relatively well constrained, making this period especially important for long-range adaptation and infrastructure planning.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

The picture is rather constrained on both right now.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Domestic traffic remains constrained by factors including airline disruptions, elevated fuel prices and geopolitical tensions, while international growth has been uneven, the analyst adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

The company anticipates that capacity and infrastructure will only become more constrained going forward as AI demand increases.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

There was another yelp, this one constrained and plaintive.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

"Ever since the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake in Japan, we realized that the tsunami data had really valuable information for constraining shallow slip," said Melgar.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026

That will feed a backlash that is already constraining AI, as more communities are fighting against the construction of massive data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

While healthcare spending has benefited the economy, population trends could also limit the pace of growth in coming years by constraining the labor pool, as Schmid said this past week.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

The former Fox News personality, who served as an Army National Guard infantry officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, disdains rules of engagement and other guardrails as constraining to the “warrior ethos.”

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 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