CLAMPING DOWN Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

clamping down

verb

present participle of clamp down

as in turning back

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However, investors on Tuesday are turning back to semiconductors and power, electrical equipment, and liquid cooling providers like Eaton , which posted strong quarterly results and raised its full-year outlook.

— Jeff Marks, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2026
Tide turns back to franchises Then the tide started turning back toward familiar waters.

— Andrew McGowan, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of turning back

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Some investors are holding back until next year’s potentially tight presidential election, worried that if Milei loses, the next government could unravel his free-market reforms.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
Africa remains the continent with the largest electricity access gap, holding back economic growth and industrial development.

— Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of holding back

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Every car depends on those same four contact patches, whether accelerating onto a straightaway at Road Atlanta or braking for traffic on I-285.

— Chris Hardesty, AJC.com, 6 Nov. 2026
This can instantly pressurize individual shock absorbers to counteract body roll, front-to-rear acceleration pitch and hard-braking dive.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of braking

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Pilots can reduce the risk by checking GPS reception and compass warnings before takeoff, selecting an appropriate RTH altitude and ensuring the home point has been recorded correctly.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026
The best way to find out whether a coupon code plays well with others is by checking the fine print on Sephora’s Beauty Offers page.

— Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of checking

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When Louise would remember the show decades later, the audience was always so electric that the room exploded into stamping feet and pounding fists.

— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
All this suggests that stopping illicit distillation will mean finding new attacks before stamping them out.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

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