Example Sentences

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The spending scrutiny is constraining Altman’s once-boundless ambitions ahead of a potential initial public offering that could take place by the end of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

The higher-priced carrier has been challenged by rising competition from peers and inflation that is constraining consumers.

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

“Bodily contact, skin-to-skin contact is constraining for any type of pathogen — when something can spread through the air, it's difficult to do anything about it, as we saw during COVID-19.”

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2024

If Dylan Hernández is correct in his theory that Los Angeles is constraining their spending in order to secure Shohei Ohtani a year from now, good luck with that one.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2022

In this very weak sense, of course, mathematics is constraining, as is all reality, but it has no independent power to coerce.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos