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[lim-it] / ˈlɪm ɪt /




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The Mayo Clinic team also investigated possible ways to reduce the number of senescent cells or limit the damage they cause.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

“These include a lack of a sustainable moat, highly concentrated revenue, intensifying constraints on the data center build-out that could limit their access to compute.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Parental controls are a useful tool, helping you to monitor and limit the time your children spend online, and what they do when they're there.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Daryanani also pointed to expectations for the Federal Communications Commission to limit imports of optical transceivers from foreign suppliers early next year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

There is a limit, though, to even the pressure that neutrons can bear.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

However, this process consumes considerable energy and places limits on how quickly information can be recorded.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

But responsibility for enforcing those limits is increasingly falling to organizations, institutions and individuals outside of the legislative branch.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

Fed governor Christopher Waller said the episode showed the limits of drastically curbing guidance, or the conditional statements officials often make about the economy and the most likely policy paths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Such levers, however, face constraints of their own, such as labor and limits to what grid optimization could do, the Morgan Stanley analysts said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

Arletta Paisley had recently become the national spokesperson for SmartMart, and with both of them greeting me at the city limits, I felt double welcomed.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Looking to 2027, the company highlighted limited visibility given the highly dynamic market environment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

These restrictions limited the potential usefulness of optical memory, particularly because thicker magnetic structures can help preserve stored information over extended periods.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

Deputies had limited information about the route he’d taken and his whereabouts, the statement said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Meta denied this but admitted moderation issues and technical errors had wrongly removed some posts or limited their reach.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The library at the Worldwide Church’s Ambassador College, to which he had access, was highly limited.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

His campaign erected billboards denouncing discrimination against the Sephardim, and his party accused Netanyahu of sidelining Sephardic members of Likud by limiting their media appearances during the campaign.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

The government has eased some restrictions on independent media and agreed to review laws limiting political rights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Purchasing power is also lower in many African markets, limiting how much businesses can recover through sales or pass on to customers.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

However, the team found that fibrin could quickly shrink under the forces exerted by contracting muscle cells, limiting the effectiveness of the resulting movement.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

In his words, “One of the great tragedies of man’s long trek along the highway of history has been the limiting of neighborly concern to tribe, race, class or nation.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander


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