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"Quantum physics allows us to overcome the statistical limits that constrain conventional electron microscopes," says Elias Pescoller.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

In response, tech executives are clearly realizing that city councils and state legislatures can do a lot to constrain them.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

The Pentagon said at the time that private companies should not be able to constrain military action.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

The FCC said it is “working to constrain the outsized power of national programmers while empowering local TV stations to serve their licensed communities.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self-approbation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say:

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

“The current debt overhang constrains external financing, limits public investment capacity and prevents full re-engagement with the international financial system,” the office of Venezuela’s vice presidency for the economy said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

The state’s limited refinery capacity makes it more vulnerable to crude price shocks, and its mandate for anti-smog gas formulations in the summer also constrains gas supplies, pushing prices higher.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

Mark Joseph Stern: Because Congress did something that was long overdue—it wrote a statute that tightly constrains the executive branch.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 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

The bigger question for the oil market is how much consumption will ultimately have to adjust if Middle Eastern supplies remain constrained.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Kamco Invest said constrained shipping routes and low refined-product inventories have left oil markets particularly vulnerable to further geopolitical shocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Thousands of homes and villas have been converted to short-term rentals like Airbnbs, and a black market for illegal apartment rentals has further constrained housing supply for locals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

The agency also found that oil production slipped by 1.6 million barrels per day month-on-month to 100.1 million barrels in August as shipping through the strait remained constrained.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

And second, singing was becoming less constrained by the three- or four-part structure.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

This leads to people constraining their budgets early in retirement, and dying with even more money than they started with at the beginning of retirement.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Despite rising computer-memory costs and a tight supply chain that have been constraining phone sales, the company is prospering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

"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

While healthcare spending has benefited the economy, population trends could also limit the pace of growth in coming years by constraining the labor pool, as Schmid said this past week.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

In this sense, mathematics is just the opposite of constraining; it is empowering, and at the service of anyone who cares to use it.

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