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restraints
Noun
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The hospital's public safety officers also got training on the use of non-lethal restraints and pepper spray.—
Cheryl Fiandaca,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026 -
The city isn’t well-positioned to raise the money to address this fact in a sensible way, given limits on its taxing authority and current budgetary restraints.—
Kevin Cole,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Containments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/containments. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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