constrain

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“There’s not really much you can do to limit the upside … in gas prices when oil prices can’t really be constrained,” he said.

From MarketWatch

“There’s not really much you can do to limit the upside … in gas prices when oil prices can’t really be constrained,” he said.

From MarketWatch

And only one seems preferable for buyers and sellers in a housing market that’s been constrained by high interest rates and out-of-reach prices for several years.

From MarketWatch

"A prolonged disruption... would begin to erode inventories, constrain logistics and tighten global oil and gas balances, with much greater effects on prices."

From Barron's

"Within this framework, the brain is modeled as a network whose behavior is constrained by global properties such as efficiency, flexibility and integration," Wilcox said.

From Science Daily