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restrictive

adjective as in contrary

adjective as in provisional

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“We call him the most expensive rescue dog we’ve ever had,” Knowles said of Ted, who is now on a restrictive diet.

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Presumably we have the right to make our home unavailable so that memory care is the least restrictive available option?

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“I view the current stance of policy as only slightly restrictive, which I think is the right place to be,” Schmid said.

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“It is perhaps counterintuitive that in order to create an environment conducive to growth, monetary policy must remain restrictive for longer,” she said.

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Simultaneously, broad nativist fear of immigrants, and their labor, led to 1921 and 1924 acts creating restrictive quota systems basically eliminating immigration from anywhere but northwest Europe and the New World.

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