limit
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Some countries have opted to limit their relations with the Taliban authorities until there are changes in Afghanistan, where people are suffering "very real harm" according to the United Nations.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
On top of that, he pointed out that Micron has been instituting long-term agreements, which lock in contracts with customers to sell capacity in advance and can limit volatility down the road.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Under these approaches, global temperatures would temporarily rise beyond a target limit, with the expectation that future technologies could later reduce temperatures again.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
We’re approaching the limit of the burden we’ve already agreed as a polity to bear and the means we’ve agreed on to spread the load between current workers and retirees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
What is the limit of something that gets smaller and smaller and smaller without stopping?
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
WSJ | Buy Side: Maxed out your federal student-loan limits?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
"Whenever I looked at the sky I imagined myself flying an airplane and seeing the world from above. I wanted to fly freely and experience a world without limits," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Because Bill Clinton, who was president when Roth IRAs were enacted in 1997, was wary of giving wealthy Americans a tax break they didn’t need, contribution limits also were constrained by family income.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Both publications agreed the result exposed “the limits of the left” and its power.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
According to law, the trashman had to dump his baskets outside the city limits, where the river made a wide bend.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
“The State AGs may call this a landmark case, but their limited claims are unsubstantiated and their financial demands are vastly disproportionate,” the company said in a statement on Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The top members of the Lantern Corps are only limited by their imagination.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
A previous strike in April had only a limited impact.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
That’s no longer true: A limited number of companies now drive most of its returns as they fuel the buildout of artificial intelligence, and an even smaller handful “chip” in the rest — pun intended.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Even with the correct raw materials available, Nhamo’s basket-making skills were limited.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
He is talking about limiting the validity of possession permits, and a possible amnesty to encourage those with unlicensed guns to hand them in.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The lab team also worried about violating longstanding safeguards limiting use of private citizen data.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Avoiding dangerous climate changes may depend not only on limiting how warm the planet eventually becomes, but also on slowing how quickly it gets there.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
The daily quantitative process is designed to “come up with an alpha forecast for all 30,000 stocks, while limiting beta,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
We could blame it on our emo-nanites limiting our despair, but it runs far deeper than that.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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