restrict
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The new policy could make it more difficult for the FDA to restrict peptides in the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
But that freedom comes with a new vulnerability - dependence on platforms that can restrict their work or cut off access to their audiences.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
The program would restrict the price of qualifying homes, depending on the county where someone is trying to buy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Amazon sued Perplexity in November 2025, accusing the startup of using its Comet browser agent to covertly make purchases on its marketplace, and has also moved to restrict agents from Google and OpenAI.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
“Never again. We shall restrict ourselves to more tasteful ventures in the future. Legal, I can’t promise.”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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The agreement on "made in Europe" restricts its application regarding cars to the EU's 27 countries, with an opt-in for a handful of others, notably Britain and Norway under certain conditions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
On adjunct instruction, he said an ABA standard unfairly restricts the ability of adjunct professors to teach first-year law students.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
A red tag marks a building as unsafe to enter, and a yellow tag restricts its use.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
“If it restricts exports, global diesel prices could simply spike,” she wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
The “no hair” theorem is of great practical importance, because it so greatly restricts the possible types of black holes.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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On the other hand, stablecoin issuers are restricted under the Genius Act as to what they can invest in.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
For a few years, it was restricted from paying dividends, a condition of the government-backed funding it received to help stabilize the business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
As the cells squeezed through these restricted passages, their nuclei underwent visible deformation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
She added she had not received victim care support from police because the file was restricted.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Even the cold-adapted Neanderthals restricted themselves to relatively warmer regions further south.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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The city would have discretion over how exactly to do that, but one possibility is that L.A. could follow Paris’ lead in restricting tourist crowds around the Eiffel Tower.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Rather than relying on medication to reduce inflammation, this approach uses carefully placed fluid to separate the affected nerve from nearby tissues that may be restricting its movement.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
She resigned from Google DeepMind this week and spoke about her concerns exclusively with the BBC, despite her contract restricting her from doing so.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The way options are presented shapes decisions without restricting freedom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Partly it was to do with the limitations of equipment–there were, for instance, no centrifuges until the second half of the century, severely restricting many kinds of experiments–and partly it was social.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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