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Real estate giants such as Evergrande, Country Garden and Vanke have also been plagued by debt struggles since 2020, when authorities narrowed access to credit in a bid to curb excessive borrowing and speculation.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

YouTube is still recommending eating disorder videos to teenage users a year after new rules were introduced to curb harmful online content, according to new research.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

A 79-year-old woman had driven a vehicle over a curb and hit a fence before plunging over a 20- to 25-foot embankment, according to KTLA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Here are some easy ways to curb some of that stress.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

I dump my bike by the curb and sit to watch them circle.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

But the curbs have been criticised as ineffective, with many teens saying they can still access supposedly banned sites.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

The officer chased the rider through a parking lot, over curbs and across grass and dirt trails, at one point telling the teen cheekily, “Oh look, I’m still here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Many of those curbs remain in place today, even though English is now cited as the most comfortable language for nearly half of Singaporeans.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

But by tethering interpretation to statutory text and congressional intent while applying it to the real-world cases of an ever-evolving society, the new regime curbs the unintended consequences of law’s diverging from reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

The curbs were loaded with tree limbs and trash and ruined things that people had swept from the streets.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

Europe has curbed refined capacity over the past five to 10 years, and other regions of the world, such as Latin America, have underinvested in their refining capacity, Selesky said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

California had always permitted raw milk to be sold in stores, but Los Angeles County’s more stringent rules had, in effect, curbed its retail sales.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

And while the West African outbreak was curbed, after two years, with vaccines, experts have warned Bundibugyo has no vaccine or known treatment.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

India's central bank has already poured billions of dollars to stabilise the currency, curbed speculative trading and offered a special credit line to oil importers to ease dollar demand.

From Barron's ● May 17, 2026

The horseman’s tone and bearing nettled Taran, but he curbed his temper and bowed courteously.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

Hiring slowed sharply in June even as the unemployment rate fell, curbing some of the budding momentum in job growth this year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

The French parliament on Monday passed a bill aimed at curbing the rise of fast fashion, targeting major Asian e-commerce platforms such as Shein and Temu.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

Negotiations that began in Switzerland this weekend are aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear ambitions in exchange for broader sanctions relief, though talks have been hampered by continued fighting in Lebanon between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Greenspan later wrote that he found the president to be "sadly paranoid, misanthropic and cynical", but the economist's success at curbing inflation impressed Nixon's successors.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

My preoccupation with curbing my impulses, my speech, my movements, my manner, my expressions had increased my anxiety.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright