restrained
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Even as tech giants like Microsoft and Meta spend hundreds of billions on establishing AI leadership, Apple’s AI spending has been relatively restrained, which could play either way in the coming years.
From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026
The state government, desperate to stimulate the economy and its moribund real-estate sector, began eroding the growth management plan that had restrained development.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
“Her heart was pierced because of what she would see,” Wille said, in what struck me as a moment of restrained insight.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
The public rhetoric around Taiwan last week remained carefully restrained.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Kit looked from one to the other, from her aunt’s barely restrained tears to her uncle’s waiting judgment There is nothing I can possibly tell them, she thought, except the truth.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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