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In a closely watched meeting Thursday in Brussels, European leaders are expected to push for additional measures to constrain Chinese imports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

This would constrain how fast their own property-tax bills grew.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Refined products such as diesel and gasoline accounted for 11% of overall flows through the strait, down from more than 20% before the conflict, as damage to Middle Eastern refineries continued to constrain fuel supplies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

That allowed the researchers to determine whether one trait might "constrain" another.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

The term ‘relativism’ is contentious, but I use it, rather than ‘constructivism’, because I want to refer to those who hold that reality does not constrain the beliefs we can hold about the real world.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

As a result, the idea that oxygen constrains insect size has not been completely ruled out.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 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

Mark Joseph Stern: Because Congress did something that was long overdue—it wrote a statute that tightly constrains the executive branch.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 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

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

Gasoline may respond more quickly, said Yilmaz, while diesel could remain comparatively supported through winter because inventories are still tight and middle-distillate supply remains constrained.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

But we can panic less knowing their powers are constrained.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

“So the options for bailing out the financial sector, or fighting recession, could be much more constrained than during the global financial crisis.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

Our other example of indigenous agriculture apparently constrained by the local flora comes from the eastern United States.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

"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

"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

Coming into the conflict, the ECB’s interest rate was at the level economists believe is neutral for the economy—neither constraining nor stimulating growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

It was clear that a way had to be found to capture the profits of laboratory discoveries without undermining academic standards or constraining scientific inquiry.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik