constricting
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In commodities, the team favors base industrial metals like aluminum, nickel, lead, and zinc, as artificial-intelligence and military buildouts increase demand while reinvestment rates by miners remain low, constricting supply.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
Like the milieu in which they’re set, prison movies can be terribly constricting.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
The album capped a lengthy, constricting record label contract that Charli had been trying to optimize for years, to varying success.
From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026
Rising demand for silver-backed ETFs has also absorbed more of the metal, further constricting supply.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
The coldness inside of him had moved upward into his throat constricting it.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
Vocabulary lists containing constricting
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