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Six example sentences with stringent, each labelled with its topic.
Stringent cold-chain limits mean a vial that spends twenty minutes above eight degrees must be thrown away.
Medicine
Stringent capital requirements forced the smaller banks to hold reserves that had sat comfortably below the old threshold.
Finance
The park's stringent permit limits let only forty hikers a day onto the ridge, and the meadows recovered within four seasons.
Environment
Stringent earthquake codes require every new school to stay standing through a shake that would flatten older housing.
Architecture
Stringent customs checks at the island airport turn away any fruit, seed, or muddy boot that might carry pests.
Travel
The league's stringent salary rules fine any team that exceeds the cap by even a single dollar.
Basketball
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