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as in restraint
the checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with others
in civilized society people do not just say or do whatever they feel like—they exercise some 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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as in pressure
the use of power to impose one's will on another
parental constraint can take several different forms, including a denial of the approval that children usually seek from their parents
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Recent Examples of constraint
Two months later, the team at Google DeepMind reported on a similar experiment across a variety of tasks and constraints — letting the language models choose their own side of the debate, for example.
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Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
Productive failure drives employee learning and growth by embedding failure into learning tasks, for example by using constraints, comparing approaches, or creating uncertainty.
—Manu Kapur, Harvard Business Review, 6 Nov. 2024
The report highlights risks related to economic conditions, supply chain constraints, and competition.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
Loading your audio article SAN JOSE — Dozens of parents and their children gathered Thursday evening to protest potential closures in Berryessa Union School District and ask officials to consider alternative solutions for budget constraints.
—Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
Productive failure drives employee learning and growth by embedding failure into learning tasks, for example by using constraints, comparing approaches, or creating uncertainty.
—Manu Kapur, Harvard Business Review, 6 Nov. 2024
The report highlights risks related to economic conditions, supply chain constraints, and competition.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
Loading your audio article SAN JOSE — Dozens of parents and their children gathered Thursday evening to protest potential closures in Berryessa Union School District and ask officials to consider alternative solutions for budget constraints.
—Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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The combination of these two attributes offered each side a sense of psychological security and common consensus, allowing for the informed restraint of lethality.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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The Business Combination Agreement includes conditions such as the absence of any legal restraint preventing the consummation of the transactions and the effectiveness of the Registration Statement/Proxy Statement under the Securities Act.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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Surfshark is our favorite VPN to get around geographical restrictions on content (aka access Netflix) and protect your web traffic while using an open Wi-Fi hotspot.Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2024
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The Target Circle Card — which offers a 5% discount on many purchases at Target in-store and online with some restrictions — listed an APY of 29.45% as of late October.Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2024
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The pressure to modernize infrastructure while maintaining operational efficiency is a challenge faced by organizations across industries.Janakiram MSV, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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The lower the pressure of a storm, the higher its intensity, the Weather Channel reports.John Bacon, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2024
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Capricorn, for instance, is governed by Saturn, the planet of authority, discipline, government and societal frameworks.Valerie Mesa, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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But even now, Ken admonishes himself for trying to silo da Vinci’s expertise into such restrictive disciplines.Hunter Ingram for Variety, ARTnews.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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On such a complicated journey, businesses often face multiple complications all at once, such as talent shortages, budget constraints, time limitations and so many others.Nataliya Andreychuk, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Of the 58 New Flyer buses, 40 will begin serving passengers for eight hours a day, a time limitation caused by a lack of chargers at the end of bus routes.Karoline Leonard, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Nov. 2024
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Lila is trying to destroy their relationship; his inability to resist women is something out of his control, a chronic compulsion, a disorder.Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
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As for how any particular magical compulsion might develop?Erica Sloan, SELF, 2 Oct. 2024
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Occupation, along with the repression and hardship that accompanied it, rallied new recruits to Hezbollah and other Lebanese armed political parties’ ranks.Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2024
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More concretely, Iran is struggling with widespread domestic discontent over its repression of dissent and a weak economy battered by U.S. and other international sanctions.Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
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It is defined by his combative personality, his lack of inhibitions, his willingness to ignore democratic norms to go places others won’t and blow past previous political boundaries in ways many find alarming − such as threatening to use the military against Americans who oppose him.David Jackson, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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Allen Institute From their findings, the researchers hypothesize that the loss of these cells may trigger a domino effect that upsets the delicate balance between inhibition and excitation, promoting widespread system failures that result in neuronal loss and cognitive decline.New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2024
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“Constraint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constraint. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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