trammel
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In addition to being noisy, the superwide rubber can trammel a bit over patched and imperfect highway surfaces.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 25, 2025
When he brings his cattle to eat the alfalfa, they will spread their waste across the fields and trammel old vegetation into the earth.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2021
Federal courts, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the majority, should interrogate the true intentions and effects of laws that seem suspiciously eager to trammel constitutional rights.
From Slate • Aug. 1, 2016
Brennan argued that the plan, like that in Weber, did not "unnecessarily trammel" the interests of whites by creating an absolute bar to their employment.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We shall by this means, we hope, be able to detect some of those fallacies which have long tended to trammel the exertions, and to prevent the success of the teacher in his interesting labours.
From A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education by Gall, James
Vocabulary lists containing trammel
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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"Macbeth": Act 1 Scene 7
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The Time Machine
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