curtail
Example Sentences
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"Falling demand for Christmas Day travel - thanks to the festival becoming more home based - and the desire of transport workers for a day off, meant rail and bus services were being curtailed."
From BBC
“If and when there’s a weather-related event or anything else, we can curtail a portion of the portfolio to help stabilize the grid,” he said.
Some more minor factors are also at play: rising U.S. production costs largely due to heightened immigration enforcement and curtailed labor supply, higher export logistics costs, and more climate-related yield variability.
From Barron's
But in 2016 several Balkan nations curtailed major epidemics of the same disease through swift action, mass vaccination and culls in about three months.
From Barron's
Hackman is restructuring debt on a number of its studios and has curtailed some expansion plans.
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