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"Weak gravitational lensing can constrain mass much further out, so you can get a better picture of the surrounding cluster area," said Finner.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

“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 particular, countries with excessive and persistent external surpluses should remove distortions that constrain domestic consumption and that result in an overreliance on exports for growth,” the Treasury statement said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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

Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self-approbation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say:

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

As a result, the idea that oxygen constrains insect size has not been completely ruled out.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

On beef, Mr. Youngkin explains, “prices are way up, and therefore cattle ranchers and farmers are selling their stock, which constrains supply. And that means that prices are going to stay high for a while.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Mark Joseph Stern: Because Congress did something that was long overdue—it wrote a statute that tightly constrains the executive branch.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025

"The thing about the Convention is that it constrains governments, and it constrains the way that governments can treat minorities and people it doesn't like," he says.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 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

In any case, subsidizing buyers will push up prices as long as supply remains constrained.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

However, refined product flows remain largely constrained, with diesel supply balances very tight, said McNally.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

This suggested that the two signals were constrained to evolve together.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

“I will NOT be constrained by a technicality!”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

That will feed a backlash that is already constraining AI, as more communities are fighting against the construction of massive data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

In this very weak sense, of course, mathematics is constraining, as is all reality, but it has no independent power to coerce.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos