clamped down

verb

Definition of clamped downnext
past tense of clamp down
as in turned back

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  1. arrested
  2. suppressed
  3. suspended
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  • The Ivy League graduate from a well-to-do family was arrested Monday in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a customer at a McDonald's spotted him and alerted the restaurant.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
  • To Catch a Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of arrested
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  • But as Daniel Goleman writes in his book Social Intelligence, in a society that puts too much emphasis on individualism, the power of the social brain often gets suppressed and overlooked.
    Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • But Google's study, published in Nature, showed that for the first time, errors can be suppressed exponentially as a quantum computer increases in size – a breakthrough that has been pursued in the field for more than 30 years.
    Sorcha Bradley, The Week UK, theweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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  • She has been suspended without pay, according to a spokesman for the New York Police Department.
    Shayla Colon, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Health officials have since suspended the sale of all raw milk products from Raw Farms, after detecting the virus in bottled products and bulk milk storage at the company’s bottling facility.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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clamped down (on)

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