- present participle of curtail.
curtailing
Example Sentences
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Curtailing waste could be particularly important during the upcoming year as California and its state-funded programs head into a period of volatile fiscal uncertainty, driven largely by events in Washington and on Wall Street.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026
Curtailing intellectual property leakage via talent flows is difficult, said Nick Marro, a China analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit, because such efforts “can run the risk of turning into ethnically-charged witch hunts”.
From Reuters • Aug. 24, 2023
Curtailing surveillance harm around the world requires confronting this reality and pushing democracies to uphold a higher standard of behavior.
From Slate • Nov. 15, 2022
Curtailing that possibility, the team announced a one-year contract extension Friday that will bring Castroneves back for a 26th full IndyCar season.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2022
Curtailing the State on the North and extending it at the same time to the Missouri on the West meant the ultimate shifting of the Capital to the Raccoon Forks.
From History of the Constitutions of Iowa by Shambaugh, Benjamin F.