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Recent Examples of clamp down
The move is the latest in a series by the White House to clamp down on foreign truckers.
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Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
In its rush to clamp down on migration of all kinds, Germany is also reported to have halted the issuance of humanitarian visas already approved.
—Frey Lindsay, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
With new chatbot safety controversies cropping up regularly, AI start-up Anthropic has updated the usage policy of its Claude chatbot to clamp down on one potentially disastrous use case.
—PC Magazine, 16 Aug. 2025
Advertisement Even former military officials have been baffled by the clamp down.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
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Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
In its rush to clamp down on migration of all kinds, Germany is also reported to have halted the issuance of humanitarian visas already approved.
—Frey Lindsay, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
With new chatbot safety controversies cropping up regularly, AI start-up Anthropic has updated the usage policy of its Claude chatbot to clamp down on one potentially disastrous use case.
—PC Magazine, 16 Aug. 2025
Advertisement Even former military officials have been baffled by the clamp down.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clamp down
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Later in the season, as more northern waters cool off and the main hurricane development region stays toasty, the instability dial could be turned back up.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
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Clayton Kershaw has turned back the clock.—
The Athletic MLB Staff,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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This is what caused the crash, given that Bearman was already so far alongside, braking earlier, and clearly unable to do anything else.—
Alex Kalinauckas,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
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There's also an e-Step button on the dash, which turns on maximum regen braking and may add some friction braking to the mix.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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Occasionally held back by a very mid-'00s aesthetic and stylistic choices that come across second-rate David Lynch, No Smoking is nonetheless an effectively paranoid adaptation of King for another culture.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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This means developers can now leverage a wide range of AI models, from state-of-the-art LLMs to custom CNN architectures, without being held back by inefficient hardware.—
Lee-Lean Shu,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Before flying, check your airline’s website for more details on what’s allowed.—
Jessie Beck,
AFAR Media,
16 Sep. 2025
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Some of ChatGPT's suggestions were practical, like checking for unclaimed money, which netted her $700 from her LLC, but others were much more bizarre.—
Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
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Every Democratic politician must be arrested and the party banned under RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act].—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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Authorities arrested a man shortly after a bullet hit Kirk, Mason said during the news conference.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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The first step of doing that would be creating a unique conversation ID at the first touch and stamping it on every chat, call, portal click and email.—
Tayfun Bilsel,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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While 10 teams across South America, Asia, Oceania have already joined hosts Canada, Mexico and the United States in stamping their ticket to next June’s tournament, everything is still to play for in European qualifying.—
Jack Bantock,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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With some of these storm-squashing factors set to lift in the next few weeks, as well as the usual swivel from storms spawning in the Atlantic to the much-closer Caribbean, some meteorologists worry that the worst is yet to come.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
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The lineup stranded 11 baserunners, though Toronto center fielder Daulton Varsho did make two remarkable catches that squashed scoring chances.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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Although Canon had mandated that the Cat's programmability be suppressed, the IAI team nevertheless maintained the ability to compute expressions, which Canon permitted as an extension of the editor metaphor.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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However, the country's typically strict online censors did not appear to be limiting discussion in the comments—a tactic often used to suppress sensitive or politically awkward narratives.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Clamp down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clamp%20down. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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