cracked down; cracking down; cracks down
: to take positive regulatory or disciplinary action
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Examples of crackdown in a Sentence
Noun
Companies that pollute are the target of a new crackdown.
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Calmatters, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024
Multiple cultural trends converged: the crackdown on obscenity, the Gospel of Love, feminism, and above all, perhaps, the doctrine of free love promoted by Woodhull.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
Fewer leaders worldwide have embodied a security crackdown more than El Salvador’s president, who has ruled with emergency powers for more than two years.
—Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
The government's crackdown on certain musical tempos would silence most modern music genres.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 9 Apr. 2024
On Friday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was taking steps to impose new visa restrictions on multiple Hong Kong officials in connection with the intensifying crackdown on dissent.
—Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 30 Mar. 2024
The crackdown comes as its rival Netflix has attributed a jump in signups from its recent crackdown on password sharing.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
The crackdown by federal investigators comes as some of the country’s biggest consumer brands have come under broad scrutiny for child labor in their domestic supply chains amid revelations that children are working throughout American manufacturing and food production.
—Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Myanmar is locked in a civil war between the military on one side and, on the other, a loose alliance of ethnic minority rebels and an armed movement which emerged in response to the junta’s bloody crackdown on anti-coup protests.
—Reuters, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Ashley Okwuosa, The Examination | Amy Yurkanin, Al.com, Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2024
Costco, too, has begun cracking down on checking membership cards in self-checkout lines.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
Netflix began cracking down on users who share log-in credentials one year ago, in an effort to get more viewers to pay for individual subscriptions.
—Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
In response, the Iranian government has been urging international regulators to force SpaceX to crack down.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 16 Apr. 2024
That year, the county began requiring host facility and direct-sales catering permits to crack down on unsafe food sales.
—Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2024
As Polygon noted in its account of the incident, hacking into the save data of Pokémon games became so rampant among cheaters that The Pokémon Company began cracking down on the practice.
—Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2024
And many major cities, including New York, are increasingly cracking down and heavily restricting the short-term rental market.
—Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
This seemingly golden moment lasted only a short time before the military cracked down on the ethnic Rohingya in Rakhine State, in the country’s northwest, in a campaign that has been widely condemned as genocide.
—Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
Noun
As crackdowns loom, homeless advocates argue that pouring money into stopgaps such as private security and temporary shelters — rather than permanent housing — will breed more problems.
—Calmatters, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024
Multiple cultural trends converged: the crackdown on obscenity, the Gospel of Love, feminism, and above all, perhaps, the doctrine of free love promoted by Woodhull.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
Fewer leaders worldwide have embodied a security crackdown more than El Salvador’s president, who has ruled with emergency powers for more than two years.
—Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
The government's crackdown on certain musical tempos would silence most modern music genres.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 9 Apr. 2024
On Friday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was taking steps to impose new visa restrictions on multiple Hong Kong officials in connection with the intensifying crackdown on dissent.
—Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 30 Mar. 2024
The crackdown comes as its rival Netflix has attributed a jump in signups from its recent crackdown on password sharing.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
The crackdown by federal investigators comes as some of the country’s biggest consumer brands have come under broad scrutiny for child labor in their domestic supply chains amid revelations that children are working throughout American manufacturing and food production.
—Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Myanmar is locked in a civil war between the military on one side and, on the other, a loose alliance of ethnic minority rebels and an armed movement which emerged in response to the junta’s bloody crackdown on anti-coup protests.
—Reuters, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
Verb
But as other states crack down on this fast-emerging, unregulated breed of cannabis product, there is no evidence of urgency in Madison.
—John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Ashley Okwuosa, The Examination | Amy Yurkanin, Al.com, Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2024
Costco, too, has begun cracking down on checking membership cards in self-checkout lines.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
Netflix began cracking down on users who share log-in credentials one year ago, in an effort to get more viewers to pay for individual subscriptions.
—Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
In response, the Iranian government has been urging international regulators to force SpaceX to crack down.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 16 Apr. 2024
That year, the county began requiring host facility and direct-sales catering permits to crack down on unsafe food sales.
—Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2024
As Polygon noted in its account of the incident, hacking into the save data of Pokémon games became so rampant among cheaters that The Pokémon Company began cracking down on the practice.
—Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2024
And many major cities, including New York, are increasingly cracking down and heavily restricting the short-term rental market.
—Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
This seemingly golden moment lasted only a short time before the military cracked down on the ethnic Rohingya in Rakhine State, in the country’s northwest, in a campaign that has been widely condemned as genocide.
—Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
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