constrain
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“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
In response, tech executives are clearly realizing that city councils and state legislatures can do a lot to constrain them.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
While the deal could strengthen MISC’s offshore capabilities and expand its contracted earnings base, the estimated 3.8 billion ringgit consideration could constrain dividend capacity if funded with cash, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
They may be able to constrain objects that existed at redshifts greater than 10, even though the mergers of their descendants that create the gravitational waves happen much later in cosmic history.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
For the Arguments to induce belief, though of sufficient certainty, yet do not so constrain the mind to give its assent, but there is prudence and choice in it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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"Economic interdependence, in this sense, constrains the scope for coordinated measures as these would impose significant commercial costs or provoke direct economic retaliation from China."
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
I think that constrains what you’re able to do.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
As a result, the idea that oxygen constrains insect size has not been completely ruled out.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
No law, domestic or international, constrains him, as far as the convicted felon is concerned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 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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Some in China see calls to slow progress as hard to justify, "particularly given their perception that US measures such as export controls have already constrained China's AI development for years," they said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The company’s ”actual output” could be constrained by its component suppliers, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
As a recent college graduate, Earls said he didn’t expect to start his adult life feeling so financially constrained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Supplies of diesel internationally have been heavily constrained by the conflict.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
There are other enterprises where our ability to change the rules is constrained by factors over which we have no control.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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This leads to people constraining their budgets early in retirement, and dying with even more money than they started with at the beginning of retirement.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 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
"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
“Put differently, physical shortages are constraining actual consumption, so what appears to be demand destruction is a supply loss showing up on the demand side of the ledger.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 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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