restrain

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For more than a year, the owners of other major league teams have telegraphed their desire to restrain all that spending, preferably through a salary cap.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

That's a struggle many businesses share, with Ukraine's central bank saying recently that "The difficult situation in the energy sector will continue to restrain business activity for a long time".

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

Barron’s Live: Matt McLennan and his First Eagle colleagues started the year highlighting the risks of America’s twin deficits, hyperscaler spending, and “geopolitical disequilibrium”—all forces that continue to restrain the U.S. stock market.

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 2026

It takes a special effort to restrain yourself from touching these alluringly dimensional surfaces.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

At one moment he could not restrain himself from declaring, “I loved her”; which news could not but inspire weariness and indifference.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson