curtailment
Example Sentences
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District Court ruled that conditioning minors’ social media participation on parental consent is “an impermissible curtailment of their First Amendment rights.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
The Doomberg article mentioned rising curtailment rates for renewables.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026
In Louisiana and parts of the Midwest, for instance, utilities have negotiated special large-load tariffs and contract terms with data-center customers that include higher base rates, upfront infrastructure contributions, and curtailment provisions during grid stress.
From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026
Mr Paddick says he has seen "a curtailment of charitable giving".
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025
He thought, that as pieces usually stood, there was little reason to be chary about meddling with them; that of course Shakspeare, and particularly "Hamlet," would need to suffer much curtailment.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Vocabulary lists containing curtailment
Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1933), List 1
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Vocabulary from Readings 4, Unit 2
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Vocabulary from Readings 6, Unit 4
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