straitjacket
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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
She tells the paper schools have been in a "straitjacket" of prioritising academic subjects, leading to many young people being "left behind", with a million currently not in training or work.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
We would stop trying to straitjacket this into something more predictable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
For all its aspiration of freedom, it is a straitjacket that cannot be removed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
My nightmare started out as something I’d dreamed a million times before: I was being forced to take a standardized test while wearing a straitjacket.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
He also became an escape artist in the manner of Harry Houdini, thrilling crowds by extricating himself from straitjackets, bank safes and jails.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 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
The report also noted the use of straitjackets and Dr Milner's patchy record keeping; both were against standard practice.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2019
Straitlaced people who go over the edge may find themselves in straitjackets.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Try that as one of 47 straitjacketed senators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
Straightened, dredged and straitjacketed the rivers with levees.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022
These steep-sided, straitjacketed streams lost the ability to spill onto their floodplains and recharge aquifers.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 7, 2018
While the Romantics message each other, straitjacketed lunatics cavort onto Alfred Schatz’s decrepit set, accompanied by live musicians.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2017
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
We end up rooting for him and against ourselves--since all those straitjacketing studio decisions are based on a thorough knowledge of what we will pay for at the box office.
From Time Magazine Archive
