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"constrictions" is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used to refer to the act of restricting or constricting, or something that causes restriction or constriction. For example, "Financial constrictions have forced the company to downsize its workforce."
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constrictions
noun
Plural of constriction
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The format isn't entirely new – an episode of Modern Family did exactly the same thing a couple of months ago – but it is a canny set of formal constrictions to impose upon oneself as a film-maker, and writer Nelson Greaves and director Levan Gabriadze outdo themselves with it for a goodly portion of the movie.
The first highlights the clash between long-term demographic pressures and the constrictions of planning policy.
And we have helped low-income people get housing.Local governments are maintaining programmes that aid people who are homeless or unemployed, despite severe budget constrictions.
Even without the constrictions of the Soviet system, it is extraordinary that he should have found his way out at all.
The purpose of reform was to remove what seemed to civil servants to be "traditional" constrictions on economic growth and administrative anachronisms that prevented the efficient exercise of royal power.
The three embryological regions of the alimentary canal become modified by constrictions, dilations, and outpocketings.
A tube once formed may be subdivided into sections by constrictions and dilations of the tube at certain points.
Constrictions soon appear in the brain region of the neural tube, subdividing it into three parts, or brain vesicles, which undergo further transformations in the course of development.
The gorge consists of four narrow constrictions connected by three basins.
It is a melodramatic tale of three generations of black women who struggle with the constrictions of slavery, miscegenation, and concubinage.
As differentiation and growth progress, this primitive tube begins to fold upon itself, and constrictions along its length produce four primary chambers.
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