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View definitions for curbing

curbing

adjective as in suppressive

adjective as in withholding

noun as in circumscription

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Critics fear that Trump will be steamrolled by the former Soviet intelligence officer on Ukraine, on sanctions aimed at curbing Russian aggression, and on the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Her organization recently developed a calculator for food banks and businesses that allows them to measure the volume of methane avoided by curbing food waste.

The US will still continue fighting climate change and curbing its emissions of planet-warming gases despite the election of Donald Trump, the US special envoy told the COP29 conference on its opening day.

From BBC

The bill doesn’t include any of the fixes that researchers have found would be most effective in curbing the plastics crisis: capping plastic production, limiting single-use plastic and removing toxic chemicals from plastic products.

From Salon

However, a new study published this week in Nature Aging says that this upward trend is curbing and boldly states that “humanity’s battle for a long life has largely been accomplished.”

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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