restrict
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Alongside efforts to restrict access and harmful information, the researchers suggest that emergency services could take additional steps to reduce the consequences of sodium nitrite poisoning.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
A Bronx jury found Omar Habib guilty of “unlawful methods of restraint,” a law that applies specifically to police officers and bars them from chokeholds that restrict a person’s ability to breathe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Those potential costs led many state Medicaid programs and some health plans to restrict coverage of the drug to the sickest patients.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
"We have to be careful in both ways. We don't want to restrict them where all of a sudden we come in second to China," he told reporters in the Oval Office last week.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
He began to restrict his riding to top horses assigned high imposts.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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They are also protected under CITES, an international agreement that tightly restricts trade in endangered species.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Beijing restricts Tesla vehicles from certain government and military locations because of concerns about cameras and data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The United States restricts exports to China of the most cutting-edge silicon chips used to power artificial intelligence systems, designed by industry leader Nvidia.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
A narrow pelvis improves locomotion, but restricts the birth canal’s size.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
“I shudder to think what that means. But perhaps it will limit Kronos’s power. For a time, at least, he is confined to a human form. It binds him together. Hopefully it also restricts him.”
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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German authorities last week found an explosives-laden drone at Leipzig airport, while operations at Hanover airport were disrupted after a drone entered restricted airspace, officials told AFP on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Access to an airline’s top-tier airport lounge may be restricted or not included at all.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
At La Albufera National Park, a protected coastal wetland covering 21,000 hectares south of Valencia, officials have spent the past week turning away or ejecting unauthorized onlookers attempting to enter restricted areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
But high housing costs for those living in the city are not restricted to August.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Clearly this was not satisfactory either for keyboard tuners or composers, who were in practical terms restricted to certain keys.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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"I do not believe restricting access to foreign open source models is an effective solution," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
“I do not believe restricting access to foreign open source models is an effective solution. Our goal should be for American open source models to be the best globally,” said Zuckerberg.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Washington’s manic quarantining of cruise-ship passengers, its restricting of foreign entry, probably did next to nothing to slow spread until a vaccine and the less-virulent omicron variants arrived, which took a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The charity added that with no meaningful rain forecast it was putting measures in place to conserve water, including restricting lock usage in some instances.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Vincent Racaniello, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University, who once calculated that he’s grown about 800 billion HeLa cells for his own research, says that restricting HeLa cell use would be disastrous.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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