Example Sentences

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Warsh said productivity gains and AI-driven innovation are the drivers of a new economic expansion that the Fed is restraining.

From Barron's • Nov. 17, 2025

Higher interest rates and the rotation of spending back to services is restraining manufacturing, which accounts for 11.3% of the U.S. economy.

From Reuters • Nov. 16, 2022

“We know what is restraining consumer spending,” he said — namely the health crisis and, for some families, the means.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2021

Last March a new law came into effect that allowed women access to protection orders - that is, restraining orders - for the first time.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2021

She is tired, her face looking numb, like she has no energy to express anything, but still I can tell she is restraining herself from talking; she is letting Father do most of it.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson