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While further funding needs appear manageable, recurring cash calls could eventually constrain shareholder returns, she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

"Weak gravitational lensing can constrain mass much further out, so you can get a better picture of the surrounding cluster area," said Finner.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

It has tried to meet the human-defined objectives set out before it through a path its designers failed to constrain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

“You don’t want to get into a situation where you constrain your own products in the years to come because you were giving away the compute forever,” Johnsen added.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Few rules constrain the exercise of prosecutorial discretion.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

It also constrains certain theories involving extra spatial dimensions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

I think that constrains what you’re able to do.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

Mr. Mitchell sees virtue in how diplomacy mitigates costs and constrains violence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

California would likely be unable to raise the commercial rates to the level of the Medi-Cal ones, because state law constrains the legislature’s ability to do so.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2025

A striking example of Bloor’s inability to acknowledge that nature constrains science is to be found on p.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

“So the options for bailing out the financial sector, or fighting recession, could be much more constrained than during the global financial crisis.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

The building was praised by the jury for its "inventive and site-specific response to a highly constrained plot".

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Global supplies were further constrained by Ukraine’s increasingly successful attacks on Russian refineries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

However, refined product flows remain largely constrained, with diesel supply balances very tight, said McNally.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

“It was a boat-house originally,” he said, his voice constrained again, difficult, the voice of someone who is uncomfortable about his subject.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

"As a result, they've become textbook examples of convergent evolution, which can tell us a lot about the processes driving and constraining adaptive change in response to similar environmental cues."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

He added that “when people hand off tasks to agents, more calls and texts can be made as a person’s attention & time are no longer constraining factors.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Despite rising computer-memory costs and a tight supply chain that have been constraining phone sales, the company is prospering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

"Ever since the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake in Japan, we realized that the tsunami data had really valuable information for constraining shallow slip," said Melgar.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026

In this very weak sense, of course, mathematics is constraining, as is all reality, but it has no independent power to coerce.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos