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Higher inflation and rupiah weakness could limit Bank Indonesia’s room to cut interest rates in near-term, with further hikes possible if currency pressures intensify.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The $3,000 capital-loss deduction limit is not indexed to rise with inflation and hasn’t increased in decades.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Firms say higher rates limit their ability to offer new jobs and wage rises.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Antioxidants can help limit certain types of chemical damage caused by reactive molecules.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
I try to make it seem like I’m also pondering something, even though I’ve hit my limit of critical thinking for the day.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Monaghan attributed the day-to-day volatility to hedge funds trading with high leverage and tighter risk limits.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
His greatest strength, the need to influence every result, also made limits hard to accept.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
This limits their ability to create materials with unusual or specialized properties.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
Notably, people living outside of the city’s limits can register their union.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Such instruments, however well constructed, could not make sufficiently exact measurements or calculations to test the limits of Ptolemaic astronomy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Brand, who stood upright in the dock, showed limited emotion as the verdicts were read out.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Now, what once seemed limited to the realm of fiction has happened IRL too.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026
Our time is limited, and our to-do list enormous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
"Their economic impact has so far been limited, but the costs of climate change are rising and future shocks may be harder to absorb," she wrote.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Early in his life, he had limited access to books.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
Rather than operating as separate responses, these processes appear to work together to help the body recognize danger while limiting unnecessary harm to healthy cells.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Higher rates are meant to encourage people to spend less, reducing demand for goods and services and limiting price rises.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
The changes would also allow authorities to impose restrictions on designated companies, including limiting services provided by Singapore's outsized financial industry.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
It also was opposed by the union representing Los Angeles Police Department officers, which objected to limiting the revenue to one city department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Finally, in former times New Guinea’s available root crops were limiting for calories as well as for protein, because they do not grow well at the high elevations where many New Guineans live today.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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