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[lim-it] / ˈlɪm ɪt /




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However, the stock’s market-beating gains so far this year and short-term negative narratives around the company could temporarily limit performance, the analysts add.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

For the 30-year-old self-published author Vianney Harelly, writing poetry is an “imperfect, messy and ugly” process, where she is allowed to break all the rules that would limit her creativity.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

The main risk isn’t so much its direct exposure to precious-metals prices, but how sharply lower gold or silver prices might limit sentiment toward the asset class and hold back transaction volumes, affecting earnings.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

These findings led to the creation of the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement involving 197 countries and the European Union to limit the use of these chemicals.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

But it also set a chronological limit to this moratorium.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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