How to Use rein in in a Sentence

rein in

phrasal verb
  • In many cases, the Grizzlies let go of the reins in the fourth quarter.
    Clay Bailey, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Europe has moved ahead of the US in its efforts to rein in tech.
    Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Some of his freestyle tendencies will need to be reined in. 8.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2023
  • In the past, central banks often relied on growth to rein in debt.
    Iese Business School, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The Amazon suit isn’t Khan’s only effort to rein in Big Tech.
    Brian Fung, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
  • In practice, this type of model has had mixed results and struggles to rein in the cost of health care.
    Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Investors still expect the Fed to hike rates one—if not two—more times this year to rein in price pressures.
    Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 30 June 2023
  • But the elephant in the room is reining in hospitals, which make up the largest portion of U.S. health care spending.
    Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Slashing just the parts of the budget the House proposals focus on would do little to rein in the deficit as other costs rise.
    Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Netanyahu's allies say the plan is needed to rein in the power of unelected judges.
    Josef Federman, USA TODAY, 15 July 2023
  • Netanyahu’s allies say the plan is needed to rein in the power of unelected judges.
    Tia Goldenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
  • And the team has spent the last few months focused on reining in some of those performance issues, trying to make Arc both fun and fast.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 25 July 2023
  • Many began to blame the mother for not reining in her child’s behavior.
    Chris Lau, CNN, 24 June 2023
  • Proponents said the law will rein in sky-high drug prices and corporate tax deadbeats.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2023
  • Costco is one of the latest companies to try to rein in sharing of paid memberships.
    Ngai Yeung, WSJ, 28 June 2023
  • But with its sunny climate and prices about half as much as in Paris and Zurich, the efforts to rein in demand are having little impact.
    Henrique Almeida, Fortune Europe, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The paper helped kick off a debate about whether U.S. antitrust laws needed to be modernized to rein in tech giants.
    David McCabe, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • As the crowd grew larger and more eager Wednesday night, event staff repeatedly sought to rein in the excitable throng and clear a walking path.
    Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Now, Google has made technical changes to rein in that surveillance power.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2023
  • In my primary home, there are no CC&Rs or rules to rein in un-neighborly behavior.
    Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • But conservative budget analysts say that does not go far enough to rein in the roughly $52 trillion debt projected for the U.S. by the end of the next decade.
    Rachel Siegel, Jeff Stein, Paul Kane, Leigh Ann Caldwell, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
  • But where pop acts might feel inclined to rein in electronic music’s harsher tones, Lanza goes hard.
    Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023
  • In recent years, protesters have taken to the streets to demand the withdrawal of UN forces for failing to rein in rebel groups, including M23.
    Sarah Dean, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The study authors have also emphasized the message that humanity still can—and must—act to rein in climate change.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 25 July 2023
  • Reddit’s challenge has been reining in the unsavory sides of that anything-goes culture.
    Paresh Dave, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
  • With the help of her girls, Sharon hopes to rein in the robot and bring her husband home to their penthouse in the building that looks like the Avengers Tower, but, for legal reasons, definitely isn’t.
    Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Despite the river’s concrete casing, installed in the late 1930s to rein in once-frequent flooding, signs of the natural stream persist.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Some cities, such as Honolulu, have even passed laws to rein in distracted pedestrians.
    Markham Heid, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • This requires people to rein in their own self-love out of consideration for others.
    Colin Marshall, The Conversation, 1 May 2023
  • But the technology has been so widely adopted that the commission might face challenges in reining in its use.
    Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023

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