restrictive
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Historically, that configuration is accommodative, not restrictive, of financial conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Carney, however, said the US presented "unacceptable" terms that were too restrictive, including curbing Canada's ability to strike new trade deals with other countries.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Meanwhile, ICE appears to be trying a different route to apply the same restrictive contract language to the facilities near Seattle and Denver, among others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Some officials said financial conditions might not be sufficiently restrictive to bring inflation down to the 2% target.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
A restrictive relative clause is essential to the meaning of the sentence, often because it pinpoints the referent of the noun from among a set of alternatives.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing restrictive
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