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But Meghan Gohil, parent of a 9th-grader at Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies, said the district is curtailing a learning tool.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025

But a new longitudinal study by Deloitte found not everyone is curtailing their spending.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2023

The NFL is curtailing daily testing of all players, vaccinated or unvaccinated, for COVID-19.

From Fox News • Jan. 22, 2022

The Chinese flooding is curtailing the transport of coal from mining regions such as Inner Mongolia and Shanxi, the state planner says, just as power plants need fuel to meet peak summer demand.

From Reuters • Jul. 23, 2021

Photographers must know that fogging and blurring the image is curtailing the experience of it.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden