straitjacket
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Granted it’s one in which Neill, strapped in a straitjacket, screams things like “I’m not insane!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
We would stop trying to straitjacket this into something more predictable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Locking money into a restricted account felt like voluntarily returning to the kind of financial straitjacket they just escaped, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
He was seen as a deft negotiator of the centre ground, triangulating his way out of the straitjacket of traditional left-right politics.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
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
Humanmade levees, dikes and other flood-control measures act like straitjackets on these rivers.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
She presents the pictures out of chronological order, so observers can’t tell whether these plots are returning to nature or being forced back into concrete straitjackets.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2021
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
She learns surveillance techniques, performs backflips, and masters the removal of handcuffs and straitjackets.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
Chastain may not wear a corset, but her Nora is straitjacketed all the same.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023
“Cape Coral is literally straitjacketed by the sins of the grandfathers: the ‘Mad Men’ of the ’50s selling lots, never really thinking beyond Grandma and Grandpa wanting to retire.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
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
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
