curtailment

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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

Recent reports of delays or curtailment of Oracle’s Abilene data center, which is being built for OpenAI, did not negatively impact RPO this quarter, Moerdler added.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

Still, Chambriard said, the curtailment of prolific oilfields lining the Persian Gulf raises the prospect of extended supply issues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

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

There is thus a double tendency to error—on the one side to multiplication of generations, and on the other to curtailment by omissions.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil