constrained
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"Lower diamond values have reduced earnings for miners, constrained investment, and weakened local economic activity."
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Because the process occurs entirely within the plane of the material, it also avoids several efficiency limitations that have constrained earlier detector designs.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
Even after its massive expenditures, Microsoft recently said its cloud-computing capacity was so constrained that it had to forsake external cloud sales to run its own operations.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
Under normal circumstances, oil prices could have risen “substantially,” given the scale of the disruption, including the closure of the strait, constrained Iranian crude supply and declining global inventories, Innes said.
From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026
That outcome also demonstrates that Native Americans were not constrained by cultural conservativism and were quite able to appreciate a good plant when they saw it.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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