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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a constrict" is not correct and usable in written English.
It seems to be a misuse of the word "constrict," which is typically a verb, and should not be preceded by "a."
Example: "The snake will constrict its prey before swallowing it whole."
Alternatives: "a restriction" or "a limitation."
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Horowitz and colleagues [ 3] define avoidance as a constrict of ideas, denial of the event (both its meaning and its consequences) and emotional numbing, while intrusion includes unbidden thoughts and images, troubled dreams, repetitive behaviour and waves of feelings.
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Take it from this former Type-A constricted control freak.
So it's a constricting perspective.
Both orthodoxies take a constricted, mechanistic view of the situation.
In some instances, performers have revitalized their careers by abandoning a constricting series.
Science – and other institutions, education included – have a constricting and standardising effect, she says.
Through this technique, the reduction force of a suture is augmented, and a constricting factor is added.
The skull was relatively high and short; it was broad in the back and featured a constricted snout.
The method is used to compute the flow in a channel, the driven cavity and a constricted channel.
Typically an orchestra has a constricted schedule, about a week, for rehearsing and performing such a program.
The weight of history — Austrian, theatrical and familial — is acknowledged but doesn't register as a constricting nightmare.
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