- present participle of constrain.
constraining
Example Sentences
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He added that “when people hand off tasks to agents, more calls and texts can be made as a person’s attention & time are no longer constraining factors.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
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
"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
In a Wednesday afternoon speech in El Paso, Texas, Logan said that the Fed’s current interest rate setting, 3.5% to 3.75%, no longer appears to be constraining rising prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 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
