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That move may encourage older adults to actually seek out Medicare Advantage to curtail their healthcare costs, analysts said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

Instead, he keeps lecturing young people to curtail their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Its main tool to achieve this is the economy's key interest rate -- raising rates tends to curtail economic activity and high prices, while lowering them encourages hiring and investment but can also stoke inflation.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026

Kieran Tierney is a terrific footballer but injuries curtail his influence.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

But time pressures inevitably curtail my literary investigations.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

The agency also expects that Iran will have to lower its output as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports curtails its ability to export oil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

This hits the economy in two ways: boosting inflation and dampening disposable income which curtails growth.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026

A wider or protracted conflict in the Middle East that curtails oil flow is certainly a risk.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

It is also virtually impossible to avoid, and it’s not clear whether trying to avoid it curtails any kind of real health problem.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2026

Going to the other extreme we may say that Poverty is the root of all evil and the more so as it curtails man's power of benefiting others.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

But so, too, was the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which sharply curtailed the Democratic nominating fight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

He said that Marfan syndrome had also curtailed his social life, adding: "I used to play football like every other young man, I was athletic but now I cannot even walk short distances."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

But refining capacity in two major fuel-export regions—the Middle East and Russia—has been severely curtailed by conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

It severely curtailed the ability of a president to quickly remove Federal Reserve officials, and thereby exert its influence over monetary policy, and reinforced the deference due to the independence of the central bank.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

By choice I do not consult the movie ratings of the Legion of Decency, and my reading is not curtailed by the Index.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Dealmaking by private-equity firms that private-credit funds lend to has slowed down, curtailing the number of lucrative new loans to be made.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Part of the problem with curtailing risk in a retirement plan is that Americans are living longer, and their portfolios need to last their entire life.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

One cloud on the horizon is the possible impact of rising fuel costs, which could end up curtailing Europeans' foreign travel.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

It would be the first part of a multistage framework, which the U.S. hopes will lead to Iran curtailing its nuclear program for decades, it added.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

Poor child, she was bewildered by the many injunctions we laid upon her, and the curtailing of her freedom tried her sorely, though not a word of complaint came from her.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya