stricture
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The company maintains it had systemwide stricture against hiring minors.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2023
Most were eventually released and told to leave the country — a stricture that many ignore, lacking the funds and desire to go home.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022
Doctors performed an X-ray, found a stricture — a narrowing of the intestinal tract — and airlifted her to a hospital in Honolulu that was equipped to perform surgery.
From Washington Post • May 6, 2022
Employees shouldn’t be made to feel uncomfortable because of things like gender, sexual orientation, race or religion — and, of course, there are legal as well as ethical aspects to the stricture.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2022
I thrilled to that truth too sweet to be believed: that as I entered the Army, I should be freed in the eyes of the law—no stricture should bind me, no paper should hold me.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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