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This would constrain how fast their own property-tax bills grew.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

"There are foundational principles in condensed matter physics that constrain how different phases can appear and disappear when one changes the temperature or applies a magnetic field," May-Mann said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

It has tried to meet the human-defined objectives set out before it through a path its designers failed to constrain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 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

“I’ve got it all worked out,” Dobbs whispered, gripping the side of Orr’s cot with white-knuckled hands to constrain them from waving.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

It also constrains certain theories involving extra spatial dimensions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

The state’s limited refinery capacity makes it more vulnerable to crude price shocks, and its mandate for anti-smog gas formulations in the summer also constrains gas supplies, pushing prices higher.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

Treating them as something society can simply “pause” doesn’t reduce demand for digital services; it constrains the supply of compute, raising costs and outsourcing technological progress elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 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

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

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

"However, our ability to achieve significant reductions in energy usage is constrained by the nature of our estate," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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

The Frenchmen smiled, but their manner was constrained and they seemed in no mood to get drunk.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

“Rising attacks on tankers in and around the Strait of Hormuz are again constraining oil flows from the Persian Gulf,” the analysts add.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

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