draconian

Example Sentences

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Nevertheless, the city council has proposed draconian measures to raise business costs even further, requiring one employee for every three self-checkout lanes and a 15-item maximum at self-checkout.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Everything fell: oil prices, the dollar, even gold, because investors were shocked by how unsophisticated and draconian the policy was.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

He wrote in a research note that Disney stock “remains historically cheap even in some of the more draconian scenarios.”

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

"Extreme rationing" could be introduced, he says, but draconian restrictions are already in place.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

For example, the San Diego and Los Angeles zoos are now subjecting the last surviving California condors to a more draconian control of breeding than that imposed upon any domesticated species.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond