as in constraints
the use of power to impose one's will on another
it took some arm-twisting, but they eventually agreed to make a donation
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The trick is to find workloads that fit within those constraints or can be cleanly split across many small nodes.
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In a franchise system, innovation has to work for owners with real operating constraints.
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Ciletti said the pressures on retail grocers have been mounting.
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While the central bank has its own favorite metric courtesy of the Commerce Department, the public data base is rife with other gauges of how price pressures are best viewed.
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For me, one of these compulsions ended up being using the tracking app.
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In a clinical setting, mental health experts call such actions compulsions – behaviors that feel impossible to resist – are fueled by obsessive thoughts and eventually begin to interfere with a person’s ability to lead a normal, healthy life.
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“Arm-twistings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arm-twistings. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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