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

But her answer isn’t to cut them and restrain spending.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

With stable economic growth and inflation making little progress toward the Fed’s goal over the past year, some officials and analysts question whether rates are high enough to restrain growth at all.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 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

I added my own exaggerated details of how many people had to restrain her, without any mention of how frightened I’d been, and how ashamed I’d felt when she lost control in front of everybody.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago