curb
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“Substantial yet well-paced selling by the national team is curbing—but not killing—the positive market momentum,” analysts at Morgan Stanley said in a note earlier this month.
"Only then will we be able to curb" the number and scale of conflicts, and reduce the cost of humanitarian aid, she said.
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This cleansing helps curb inflammation and keeps the brain working properly.
Though other types of drone attack persisted, SpaceX’s move, which Musk touted on his X social-media platform, curbed the latest battlefield advantage for Moscow at a critical moment in the four-year war.
Those calls grew louder when China flexed its muscles last year by stepping up curbs on exports of rare earth minerals, and later temporarily halted exports of Nexperia semiconductors, alarming the German auto sector.
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