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restrictively

ADVERB
oppressively
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Anna Hopkins plays Fret, a medical researcher working to thwart a spreading plague called Coral, which causes humans to grow a restrictively stiff shell on their skin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2022

Mr. Musk has criticized Twitter for moderating its platform too restrictively and has said more speech should be allowed.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

Rural America is only doomed to decline if you define it so restrictively that it’s not allowed to grow.

From Washington Post ● May 24, 2019

As a result, an insensitive viewer might have been inclined to celebrate “Moonlight” for the wrong reasons—for what might be misconstrued as its restrictively personal, i.e., apolitical, view of the lives of black Americans.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 14, 2018

Learn your facts with discrimination; then use them restrictively in the circumstances where they will be most effective in promoting your success.

From Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins


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