curtailment
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"I think once he got that curtailment letter, he thought there's no way out, they're telling me to leave, I need to do something."
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
A halt in flows there would be comparable in scale to the curtailment of Russian gas supplies to Europe, which sent prices soaring, Di Odoardo says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
The Doomberg article mentioned rising curtailment rates for renewables.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026
Starmer also said Britain would continue to raise human rights concerns with Beijing, including over "curtailment of freedom in Hong Kong".
From Barron's • Dec. 2, 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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