constrain

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Elevated crude costs, structural demand softness in China and ongoing petrochemical oversupply are expected to constrain the company’s profitability, she adds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Doing so demands coordinated action by the international community to constrain the East Asian supply chains feeding their production.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

The First Amendment and decades of precedent constrain executive agencies.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

Presidents have a freer hand to craft policy on the global stage, with lawmakers and courts less empowered to constrain them.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 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