curb
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"Boosting the tubulin pool, rather than blocking droplet formation, can curb toxic aggregation while preserving the healthy roles of Tau and alpha synuclein, offering a potential selective therapeutic strategy."
From Science Daily • Jun. 21, 2026
Trash, we learn, is no longer private once it hits the curb: Sidewalks are public enough that no search warrant is needed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026
This will cause bouts of declines, which will curb just how high these stocks go.
From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026
His first task was to help implement the unpopular Prices & Incomes Act, which sought to hold down wages to curb inflation.
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2026
The boys lined up, became a wall on the sidewalk, and Pia thought about hopping the curb to go around them but knew better than to skate into oncoming traffic.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
Vocabulary lists containing curb
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