constraint

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as in restriction
something that limits one's freedom of action or choice put legal constraints on the board's activities

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Recent Examples of constraint Trump’s abrupt withdrawal from the JCPOA in 2018 led to the predictable result: Iran’s nuclear program surged ahead, breaking free of the deal’s constraints. Josh Black, Time, 28 June 2025 The legal constraints on Germany are significant, too. Florence Gaub, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025 At the same time, this deal fits within the constraints of current market realities, enabling us to remain highly competitive in the budgeting of our productions. Katie Campione, Deadline, 24 June 2025 The team is already looking to expand the model to account for real-world constraints, such as regional resource availability, cost, and lifecycle performance. Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for constraint
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Noun
  • Shams Charania’s debut as part of ESPN’s NBA Draft coverage last week doubled as a herculean exercise in restraint.
    Peter A. Berry, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2025
  • Most were secular, or observed religion privately and with restraint.
    Kian Tajbakhsh, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • The company said in a statement that inventory value adjustments and the impact of U.S. restrictions on advanced AI chips for China had contributed to the decline in profits.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 7 July 2025
  • Starting in the 1970s, home construction plummeted and prices soared in high-opportunity coastal cities because of restrictions on supply.
    Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • The sweltering conditions were perhaps an incidental metaphor for the pressure the industry is feeling as the global luxury industry experiences a troubling slowdown.
    Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Money, 1 July 2025
  • Atlanta has clearly brought in personnel designed to push the pace on offense and applies intense perimeter pressure on defense.
    Kambui Bomani, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • But the promise of fiscal discipline has become a straightjacket.
    Oliver Eagleton, Time, 5 July 2025
  • Prior to Vida, the Fort Wayne native studied culinary disciplines including butchery at Ivy Tech's Fort Wayne and Indianapolis campuses.
    Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Hybrid and virtual models also eliminate geographical barriers, which could increase attendee participation while reducing time and resource limitations.
    Michele Dobnikar, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • But signals intelligence also has limitations, as overheard snippets of conversations sometimes lack context and must be paired with other information for a fuller picture of events.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Harboring a tragedy from her past, Johansson smooths Zora's rough edges with a compulsion to keep everyone protected, even at the expense of her own safety.
    Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • But when care becomes compulsion, and when support turns into self-sacrifice, the relationship begins to lose balance.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • The costs of academic repression, in other words, are not confined to elite institutions—they are borne by everyone.
    Matt Motta, Scientific American, 10 July 2025
  • Mac's deeply closeted, Catholic-guilty homosexuality had been treated as a joke throughout the show's run, with the joke never truly being about Mac being gay, but about how his desperate repression had twisted him into a caricature of grasping masculinity.
    Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Before the month comes to a close, Mercury will station retrograde in Leo, activating your 12th house of secrets, surrender and your subconscious, bringing up old memories or inhibitions that have been clouding your clarity.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 July 2025
  • Reservations and inhibitions have a way of slipping away in the Snake Pit.
    Shari Rudavsky, IndyStar, 2 July 2025

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“Constraint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constraint. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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