stringent

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Allen, who had reserved a room as a hotel guest, said in his manifesto obtained by the New York Post that security was far less stringent than he had expected.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

The FAA has stringent medical disclosure requirements to ensure that controllers are stable when they coordinate thousands of flights.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

That being said, ExpressVPN’s privacy practices include some “gold standard” stuff like RAM-only servers that are wiped at every reboot and its stringent no-logs policy.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

Under the stringent National Security Act, a suspect can be detained for up to 12 months without being formally charged.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

And there is another smell in the Packard now, above leather and whiskey, a stringent, metallic smell overpowering my grandfather’s deodorant: fear.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides