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This would constrain how fast their own property-tax bills grew.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

"There are foundational principles in condensed matter physics that constrain how different phases can appear and disappear when one changes the temperature or applies a magnetic field," May-Mann said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

During the 2010s, many central banks fretted over low rates, which they worried would constrain their ability to cut rates during a crisis to boost growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

An inability to replicate Phase 2a efficacy signals would reduce rentosertib’s value, and even if efficacy is demonstrated, safety-driven dose modification could constrain commercial uptake, the analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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

It also constrains certain theories involving extra spatial dimensions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

“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

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

No law, domestic or international, constrains him, as far as the convicted felon is concerned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 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

"They're in the same universe. They're constrained by the same chemical and physical rules. So, it's not surprising they'd end up evolving the same way."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

The unwelcome trajectory for mortgage rates overshadows some positive news for home buyers: the recovery in housing supply, which has been constrained over the past few years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

"However, our ability to achieve significant reductions in energy usage is constrained by the nature of our estate," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Some in China see calls to slow progress as hard to justify, "particularly given their perception that US measures such as export controls have already constrained China's AI development for years," they said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

We began cooking their breakfast, somewhat constrained for space, with so many in so small a chamber, and the fire burning large within the hearth.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

“Rising attacks on tankers in and around the Strait of Hormuz are again constraining oil flows from the Persian Gulf,” the analysts add.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

He added that “when people hand off tasks to agents, more calls and texts can be made as a person’s attention & time are no longer constraining factors.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

“This is constraining international students from thriving and achieving success,” Ding said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

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