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curtailment

[ker-teyl-muhnt] / kərˈteɪl mənt /


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District Court ruled that conditioning minors’ social media participation on parental consent is “an impermissible curtailment of their First Amendment rights.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The officially reported curtailment rate for late 2024 was 3.2%.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026

Mr Paddick says he has seen "a curtailment of charitable giving".

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

He said Johnson's style of decision-making "may not be to everyone's taste" but added he was "wrestling with an enormously difficult question about the curtailment of liberty and the maintenance of access to healthcare".

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

Old Kenion paid the bill, to avoid something worse than the curtailment of the university curriculum.

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington)




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