inhibited
Example Sentences
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“Dominion owns attractive regulated assets that have been inhibited by a high payout ratio and constrained balance sheet,” he said in a research note Monday.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
Hall told the BBC: "The worry will be with loose language people will feel inhibited about talking about things which are genuinely important today."
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026
Once this protein was inhibited, the older muscle stem cells began behaving more like young ones.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026
“It was an odd pairing: Harold Macmillan, the inhibited, repressed publisher’s son, and Bob Boothby, the warm, witty progeny of an Edinburgh banker,” writes Lynne Olson.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
As I breathed, truly released from the grasp of all that inhibited me, I began to see how blessed I was.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
Vocabulary lists containing inhibited
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Lesson 4
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