stricture
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The company maintains it had systemwide stricture against hiring minors.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2023
Because her narrowing was causing her to be short of breath, the stricture needed to be opened.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023
Most were eventually released and told to leave the country — a stricture that many ignore, lacking the funds and desire to go home.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022
The two companies resisted this draconian stricture until, finally on Friday, they didn’t.
From Washington Post • Sep. 18, 2021
I thrilled to that truth too sweet to be believed: that as I entered the Army, I should be freed in the eyes of the law—no stricture should bind me, no paper should hold me.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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