constriction

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The theory suggests that maintaining safe exposure to bright light while limiting accommodative pupil constriction may help control myopia.

From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026

For almost five years, the entertainment industry has been beset, first by the pandemic, then by the writers’ and actors’ strikes and the constriction that followed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025

The introduction of Turner somewhat cushions that constriction, but more so by the sights of Ellis-Taylor’s remarkable Hattie.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2024

The show unfurled with a model emerging from the shadows in a sinisterly twisted black laminated dress that seemed to swallow her hands whole — a striking image of constriction reappeared throughout the collection.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2024

I wanted so much for us: a life free of constriction and prejudice.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart