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narrowness

NOUN
a physical restriction
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STRONG


NOUN
a mental restriction
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“There’s a lot of angst out there about this narrowness in the market,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

“In the end that sacred project actually tends to produce sectarian narrowness, exclusion, uniformity, silencing, self-censorship, lack of debate, the negative sanctioning of nonconformists, and the debilitation of rigorous thought.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

And even within the strait, there are particular challenges that convoys could struggle with -- for one, the narrowness of the channel drastically reduces the time a warship might have to stop an attack.

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

This narrowness of thought and action was also prevalent at Public Health England, the body responsible for health protection at the start of the pandemic.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2024

Such was the narrowness imposed in the house that Aureliano Segundo felt more comfortable at Petra Cotes's.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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