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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

As access to infrastructure and computing power continue to constrain AI development, large cloud players have invested increasing amounts of money into building out data centers.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025

We not only have a regulator which has fundamentally failed to grasp the urgency and scale of its mission, but a regulatory model that inherently and significantly constrains its ability to reduce preventable harms.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 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

It could mean that the government's choices on what it wants to spend are constrained as the Budget approaches.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

"The result is that capacity is now constrained nationally until facilities can be brought back online or new capacity is permitted and developed."

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

European and Asian buyers are locked in a bidding war over constrained supplies from the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Indeed scientific knowledge, properly understood, must be seen to be both constructed and constrained.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Despite its growth so far, Goodles’s relatively small size was constraining further expansion, according to Zeszut.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

"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

“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