straitjacket

The fate of a franchise depends on cramming them into a vast, complex puzzle of resource allocation that’s harder to navigate than a swimming pool in a straitjacket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Opinion is divided on whether these are sensible building blocks for the economy which allow living standards to improve, or a "dysfunctional" economic straitjacket.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

We would stop trying to straitjacket this into something more predictable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

It makes the whole project less overwhelming — more a compass than a straitjacket.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2025

Perhaps the place freed him from a straitjacket of grief.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

These included freeing himself from chains, ropes, and straitjackets under water.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025

If Corsi and Fenwick get me, call the guys with the straitjackets.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2020

There were straitjackets that looked like giant coveralls, straitjacket smocks, straitjacket anoraks.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2019

To start: Immobile models were conveyed down a moving runway wearing white canvas straitjackets - the most extreme expression of the uniforms that Alessandro Michele called “a strong sign of oppression.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2019

Straitlaced people who go over the edge may find themselves in straitjackets.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

It’s the one that feels most weirdly and defiantly its own thing, the one least straitjacketed by Marvel conventions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

Chastain may not wear a corset, but her Nora is straitjacketed all the same.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023

Straightened, dredged and straitjacketed the rivers with levees.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022

Today, the Mississippi is little more than a massive canal, straitjacketed by earthen walls and traversed by massive freighters moving cargo bound for places as far north as Wisconsin.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 22, 2021

And so it was, that justice handcuffed, straitjacketed, blistered, and impartial, sent from its bed of torture a beam through Cooper's tough hide to his inner heart.

From Hard Cash by Charles Reade

In 1939, as the straitjacketing of the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

In other words, Cohen accuses traditional sensory science of artificially straitjacketing tasters in order to achieve a false objectivity.

From The Guardian ● May 23, 2018

They seemed to enjoy the idea, he added, “that these forces were straitjacketing them, whether it was true or not.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2012

The straitjacketing of the Mississippi began with an obnoxious Army engineer named Andrew Humphreys, who lost 3,000 soldiers in the charge at Fredericksburg and later marveled, "I felt more like a god than a man!"

From Time ● May 12, 2011

Threats of "we will strike" commit us to further straitjacketing the school systems with more specialization.

From Time Magazine Archive