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I will devote my full energy to the project, without constraint.constraint = limitation
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They talked with uneasy constraint.constraint = inhibition or reserve
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Both sides have demonstrated a lack of constraint in the discussions.constraint = staying within limits (in this case restraining themselves from saying things that make it hard to work together)
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We want constraints on her power to spend taxpayer funds.constraints = limitations
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In the years I had lived on Aiaia, I had never chafed at my constraint. (source)constraint = limitation of freedom
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But to Louie, training felt like one more constraint. (source)constraint = limitation
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"Do you know what compulsion means?" "Constraint. Obligation. Because one is compelled." (source)Constraint = something that limits something else
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"Negative liberty," he said, "is the freedom from external obstacles or constraints." (source)constraints = things that limit action
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They were only the sons of the little rich men, the lords of the village and county, but as he saw them go so surely, with such laughing unconstraint, in well-cut clothes, well-groomed, well-brushed, among the crowd of humbler students, who stiffened awkwardly with peasant hostility and constraint,—they were the flower of chivalry, the sons of the mansion-house.† (source)unconstraint = freedom from limitationsstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconstraint means not and reverses the meaning of constraint. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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As the first lid opened, all constraint was gone. (source)constraint = inhibition or reserve
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I painfully explained the constraints on resources and time, telling them how frantic we were just trying to get the new office up and running. (source)constraints = limitations
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He masters whose spirit masters, he tastes sweetest who results sweetest in the long run, The blood of the brawn beloved of time is unconstraint; In the need of songs, philosophy, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, any craft, He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.† (source)unconstraint = freedom from limitations
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By contrast, the working-class and poor children were characterized by "an emerging sense of distance, distrust, and constraint." (source)constraint = limitation of action
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There's no physics to worry about, no constraints on acceleration, no air resistance. (source)constraints = limitations
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Politicians and kings suffer the agony of constraint. (source)
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She insisted on her unequivocal determination for them to remain together only so long as they were friends, without constraints or promises for the future, just like Sartre and Beauvoir. (source)
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