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rein

noun as in restraint, control

verb as in restrain, control

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Joe Young of Mercer Advisors is having his clients in the Washington, D.C., area think about reining in spending over a three-month time horizon.

Global competition regulators have long struggled to rein in the world’s largest technology companies under existing antitrust rules, partly due to how rapidly digital products and markets evolve.

Neither protests nor Iranian escalation would cause him to rein in Israel.

But those measures have helped to rein in inflation and have been largely welcomed by international investors and the International Monetary Fund, a key lender to Argentina.

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Walmart, which continues to dominate by offering deals to pinched consumers, said middle- and low-income shoppers are reining in spending and putting fewer discretionary items in their carts.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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