How to Use crackdown in a Sentence

crackdown

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  • Companies that pollute are the target of a new crackdown.
  • On May 16, the state announced a crackdown on the scam.
    — Erin Vivid Riley, The New Republic, 29 July 2023
  • That crackdown helped bring the number of murders down to four in 1993.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • In the face of a deadly regime crackdown, protests died down in Iran earlier this year.
    — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
  • But many now fear that the arrests portend a broader crackdown.
    — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • His campaign had promised a crackdown on crime and corruption that gripped the country in recent years.
    — Rafael Romo, CNN, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The crackdown came on the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, which led to a months-long siege by the Chinese government.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 4 June 2023
  • The crackdown doesn't just mean a chastened Binance will have to change its practices going forward.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The crackdown has made people much more cautious about overtly showing their anger at the government, said Ilyash.
    — Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • Some cities in the county passed their own camping restrictions, in part, out of concern that homeless people would go there to avoid the crackdown in San Diego.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The currency was helped by a government crackdown on a black market for U.S. dollars.
    — Matthew Thomas, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
  • So have violent crackdowns by both countries’ armies, which have been accused of killing civilians.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • The Justice Department last year seized a superyacht as part of a crackdown on Russia’s business elite.
    — Sadie Gurman, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023
  • On a parallel track with their crackdowns, San Diego and other cities have sought to expand shelters and other housing.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Their cases, along with Douma’s, came to symbolize the narrowing of civic space in Egypt, where Sisi has carried out a far-reaching crackdown on dissent over the past decade.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The first visible signs of the crackdown were the removal last year of the two rocket force commanders, followed by Gen. Li Shangfu, the defense minister.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The country, once one of the most violent in the world, has become relatively safe under a huge crackdown on gangs and the detaining of tens of thousands of people.
    — Carmen Sesin, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The new impound rules are modeled after a similar crackdown in Orange, a city near Anaheim that had been dealing with the same kinds of scofflaw vendors for years.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • More: Tech giants pledge crackdown on 2024 election AI deepfakes.
    — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The collapse caused markets to nose-dive and led to the failure of other crypto firms; a regulatory crackdown in the US; and, in a roundabout way, the fall of two crypto-friendly banks.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
  • His supporters trumpet a crackdown on criminal gangs in the country that resulted in a dramatic fall in the murder rate, once the highest in the world.
    — David Shortell, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The federal government sued to block the deal in March as part of a crackdown on consolidation in the airline industry.
    — Madlin Mekelburg, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The Kremlin's low-key crackdown in response to the most drastic threat to Putin in his 23-year rule highlights the Russian leader's cautious crisis management style.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2023
  • All the while, another team at Google quietly prepared to unleash the most sweeping crackdown on ad blockers since Facebook took them on in 2016.
    — WIRED, 3 Nov. 2023
  • In recent weeks, protests against the current government have rocked Bangladesh as a crackdown has happened against those in opposition, ahead of the country’s next round of elections in 2024.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • But the crackdown has also raised alarms about the rights of thousands of people like Barahona, who are arrested without explanation and held for months.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • New York’s crackdown on short-term rentals has dramatically reshaped the vacation rental market in the city.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Coinbase’s share price has nearly tripled over the past six months, even after the Securities and Exchange Commission sued the firm as part of the agency’s broad crackdown on the industry.
    — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023

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