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However, persistent digital-talent shortages, uneven connectivity and the widening gap in AI adoption between developed and emerging economies are likely to constrain adoption, BMI says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

The Pentagon said at the time that private companies should not be able to constrain military action.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

They may be able to constrain objects that existed at redshifts greater than 10, even though the mergers of their descendants that create the gravitational waves happen much later in cosmic history.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 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

I think that constrains what you’re able to do.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

“The current debt overhang constrains external financing, limits public investment capacity and prevents full re-engagement with the international financial system,” the office of Venezuela’s vice presidency for the economy said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 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

"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

Holiday lets "can generate important economic and social benefits, especially for households struggling to make ends meet" but "they may also aggravate housing demand pressures in some constrained local housing markets," the EU draft read.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

“This could see Persian Gulf supply remain constrained through the rest of 2026,” they added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

He added that both companies “are supply constrained, sold out and raising prices.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

The longer that flows through the Strait of Hormuz remain constrained, the more officials will have to balance economic growth with ensuring oil stockpiles don’t fall too much.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

And so the conversation veered again, awkward and constrained for a while, but it skirted all reference to the troubles of the day.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

"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

“Put differently, physical shortages are constraining actual consumption, so what appears to be demand destruction is a supply loss showing up on the demand side of the ledger.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026

While healthcare spending has benefited the economy, population trends could also limit the pace of growth in coming years by constraining the labor pool, as Schmid said this past week.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 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