adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Judge Leval was constrained by an earlier decision of the court.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Duckham is a much more hapless figure: rather a constrained Everyman, almost a bore in fact.
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If perception has to be triggered off by what is actually there, then it is constrained to be true.
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It is constrained only by Ethernet.
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It is true for intra-generational talk as well that speakers are not constrained to use Creole to respond to a Creole utterance.
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Mr. Davis felt constrained to accept that such a case might be within the purview of the legislation.
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Republicans who used to back it because the president liked it will no longer feel constrained to do so.
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Some one who could be trusted with confidences, give advice, and yet not be constrained and influenced by being your parent.
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The more highly constrained and ritualised the genre, the more likely we are to be able to identify norms.