curtailment
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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 economy has been remarkably resilient in the past year in the face of weak sentiment, tariffs, an uncertain business environment, a sharp curtailment of immigration and a prolonged government shutdown.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
The Doomberg article mentioned rising curtailment rates for renewables.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026
He said Johnson's style of decision-making "may not be to everyone's taste" but added he was "wrestling with an enormously difficult question about the curtailment of liberty and the maintenance of access to healthcare".
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025
Himself incapable of strenuous effort, he was spurred on by Marie Antoinette, who keenly felt her own degradation and the curtailment of that royal prerogative which her son would one day inherit.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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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