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“Congress has tremendous opportunity to constrain what the federal government can do in the form of abusive immigration practices,” Arulanantham said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

"By revealing this previously hidden soft X-ray phase, Einstein Probe opens a new window for studying neutron star merger remnants and may ultimately help constrain the neutron star equation-of-state."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 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

Few rules constrain the exercise of his or her discretion.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

It also constrains certain theories involving extra spatial dimensions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 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

No law, domestic or international, constrains him, as far as the convicted felon is concerned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025

Mr. Mitchell sees virtue in how diplomacy mitigates costs and constrains violence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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

The government is grappling with ways to find solutions but is constrained by France's gigantic debt pile which is already spooking markets.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

Another point Privorotsky makes is that if the expansion of future compute is constrained, then the value of existing, energized compute rises as a consequence.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Electric bikes can dramatically reduce operating costs for high-mileage riders, it said, although expansion was constrained by the same foreign-exchange shortages affecting the wider economy.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Bullock added that the economy remains capacity constrained and that demand needs to cool further if the RBA is to achieve its inflation target of 2.5%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

He walked slowly with a constrained dignity, hoping to conceal the presence of his artificial limb.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

"As a result, they've become textbook examples of convergent evolution, which can tell us a lot about the processes driving and constraining adaptive change in response to similar environmental cues."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 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

Huang noted more than once that capacity, not demand, is constraining Nvidia’s growth—it projected 70% revenue growth for fiscal 2028.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

“This is constraining international students from thriving and achieving success,” Ding said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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