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constrained

[kuhn-streynd] / kənˈstreɪnd /
ADJECTIVE
forced
Synonyms


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You’ve got to earn the right each and every day to be in that shopping basket, particularly when budgets are so constrained.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

‘The world is not constrained by money. It’s constrained by ideas and talent.’

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

Blanche seems to be quite aggressively auditioning for the AG job, and he also seems to be much less constrained by whatever the thing was that once constrained Bondi.

From Slate • May 4, 2026

Imports from the US meanwhile, while growing, have been constrained by the fact that the US aviation market uses a different fuel specification to most of the rest of the world.

From BBC • May 3, 2026

So though we had great will to speak to the other, we were constrained in our discourse; I fretted at my ignorance.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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