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stringency

[strin-juhn-see] / ˈstrɪn dʒən si /


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CCRCs lack federal oversight and nationwide standards, though 41 states license them with varying stringency.

From Barron's Jun. 20, 2026

The plan strikes a “balance between program stringency and affordability,” said Fariya Ali, air and climate policy manager with PG&E, during the meeting.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2026

The decline reflects, in part, the stringency of inspection measures at the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel, which has acted as the main gateway since it was reopened in December.

From New York Times Mar. 1, 2024

Minhaj applied a similar stringency to "Patriot Act," but at a cost.

From Salon Sep. 23, 2023

There is a certain stringency to life, a willful doing without.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

But he added that some air taxis are being lumped into categories such as general aviation where smaller aircraft have different stringencies than larger jetliners.

From Reuters Nov. 8, 2022

As an example, Alter cited Dr. Steiner’s assertion that “Antigone draws about herself an ethical solitude, a lucid dryness which seems to prefigure the stringencies of Kant.”

From Washington Post Feb. 5, 2020

It's fair to guess that Kazaras's original staging ideas must have been both more coherent and more convincing before budget stringencies intervened.

From Seattle Times Apr. 2, 2011

This is a small selection of the thousands who have had to endure the absurd stringencies of the UK Border Agency since the points-based visa system was introduced.

From The Guardian Mar. 16, 2010

There’s a sort of communal Christian Science in this place which ordains that thought shall not dwell on such transient evils as drought or black rust or early frost or hail-storms or money stringencies.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)




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