inhibited
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“Dominion owns attractive regulated assets that have been inhibited by a high payout ratio and constrained balance sheet,” he said in a research note Monday.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
Once this protein was inhibited, the older muscle stem cells began behaving more like young ones.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026
It was something neither she nor her coaches had ever clocked from just straight video footage, inhibited by limiting angles and baggy snowboarding clothing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
"With a constrained Assembly mandate additional legislation beyond that already scheduled is unfortunately inhibited," it added.
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2025
Somehow I felt that Bledsoe and Norton were behind it, and all day I was inhibited in both speech and conduct, for fear that I might say or do something scandalous.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Vocabulary lists containing inhibited
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Lesson 4
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"Love's Vocabulary" by Diane Ackerman
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