constrain
Example Sentences
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Vehicle design is subject to a host of requirements and regulations that constrain designers’ options; what’s left has to be approved by the company’s accountants and suppliers and signed off by the executive corps.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
The new results constrain the form of these models and will direct future searches for them.
From Science Daily • May 26, 2026
“There is insufficient remaining competition to constrain a post-merger exercise of market power by Keyera,” lawyers for the bureau said in a filing to the Competition Tribunal, Canada’s antitrust judicial body.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
But it warned that "if instability in the Middle East persists, rising costs, delays and limited transport capacity are likely to constrain humanitarian operations further."
From BBC • May 2, 2026
“I’ve got it all worked out,” Dobbs whispered, gripping the side of Orr’s cot with white-knuckled hands to constrain them from waving.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing constrain
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Excerpt from "The Declaration of Independence"
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Essential English Vocabulary, List 3
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