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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

For the next two to three quarters, hawkish policy, a firm dollar and elevated U.S. real rates could constrain the metal’s upside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

You sense it all around in the pointed lack of ornamentation, plants, or reason for hope—walls built not to shelter but to constrain.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

It also constrains certain theories involving extra spatial dimensions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 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

Dr Xand also cautions that some back gadgets marketed as improving posture can force you into one position that constrains and restricts your movement and that's the opposite of what you want to be doing.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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

The scramble for funding underscores how the AI craze has shifted to a phase where capital is more constrained.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

In other words, they are not the least constrained or intimidated by the other work of art.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

"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

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

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

Despite rising computer-memory costs and a tight supply chain that have been constraining phone sales, the company is prospering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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