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A. Economists increasingly agree that as weather events become more frequent and severe, they will drag on growth, stoke inflation and constrain government budgets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The overall thrust of the package, the Evercore analysts said, is to reduce regulatory barriers that constrain housing construction by streamlining environmental reviews and encouraging localities to adopt zoning and building-code best practices.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

She said this would constrain whoever is Prime Minister.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

Analysts note that the valuation Anthropic sets will constrain OpenAI’s ability to set its own price when it goes public.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Few rules constrain the exercise of his or her discretion.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

As a result, the idea that oxygen constrains insect size has not been completely ruled out.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

Mr. Mitchell sees virtue in how diplomacy mitigates costs and constrains violence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

Barron’s: Your latest research on immigration focuses on what happens when constrains are put on the availability of skilled foreign workers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025

California would likely be unable to raise the commercial rates to the level of the Medi-Cal ones, because state law constrains the legislature’s ability to do so.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2025

A striking example of Bloor’s inability to acknowledge that nature constrains science is to be found on p.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

On Friday, Sánchez accused migrant traffickers of exploiting a decision recently made by the country's supreme court which constrained the government's right to immediately deport people who had arrived by sea.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

“I said to our professionals, ‘Look, if you were running a business that was capacity constrained and had really high margins, you would beg, borrow and steal to expand that business.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

"Samsung's ability to supply HBM to Nvidia is, in my view, somewhat constrained," Joo Won, head of the economic research division at Hyundai Research Institute, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Over the next three decades, sea level rise pathways are relatively well constrained, making this period especially important for long-range adaptation and infrastructure planning.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

A constrained trio lingered after Rachel had climbed the stairs behind her husband.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

"Ever since the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake in Japan, we realized that the tsunami data had really valuable information for constraining shallow slip," said Melgar.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026

But the policies are multiplying and growing more constraining as the crisis continues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

The former Fox News personality, who served as an Army National Guard infantry officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, disdains rules of engagement and other guardrails as constraining to the “warrior ethos.”

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026

Fragmentation compels banks and asset managers to localize balance sheets and hold excess capital, constraining cross-border intermediation and dampening growth.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

In this very weak sense, of course, mathematics is constraining, as is all reality, but it has no independent power to coerce.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos