How to Use crackdown in a Sentence

crackdown

1 of 2 noun
Definition of crackdownnext
  • Companies that pollute are the target of a new crackdown.
  • If anything, the harsh crackdowns on this year’s protests have brought disruption and distrust.
    — Eddie R. Cole / Made By History, TIME, 4 June 2024
  • The move formed part of the Biden administration’s crackdown on sneaky fees that often cost consumers.
    — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 17 May 2024
  • The crackdown could raise $50 billion in tax revenue over the next 10 years, according to the agencies.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, CNBC, 11 July 2024
  • Yes, that’d be a big decline in growth rate from the prior quarters, but those were disproportionately huge in large part due to the password-sharing crackdown.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 17 July 2024
  • Critical to Netflix’s success has been its crackdown on password sharing, which resulted in millions of new subscribers.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 18 July 2024
  • The Iowa market is unaffected by the commission’s crackdown on commercial markets.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 17 May 2024
  • An issue that has emerged since the crackdown started is shuttered shops reopening after contesting their padlock cases in administrative court.
    — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 17 July 2024
  • The crackdown obliterated most short-term Airbnb listings — a phenomenon that some observers said might have had an even larger impact on hotel rates than the migrant crisis.
    — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 25 May 2024
  • Residents in the adjacent Riverwood Ranch, a gated, 37-home enclave, are fed up and are calling for a city crackdown on scofflaw visitors.
    — Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2024
  • 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
  • Restoring the Trump crackdown will curtail Iran’s ability to fund terrorist proxy forces in the Middle East and beyond.
    — Robert C. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 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
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crack down

2 of 2 verb
  • But simply passing laws cracking down on the distribution of disinformation may not be the best way to go about it.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 May 2024
  • New policies that crack down on emissions, for example, would signal that their product may not be in as high demand as had previously thought.
    — Justin Worland, TIME, 28 May 2024
  • The moves were reminiscent of Netflix, which has also cracked down on people who use its service without paying.
    — Melissa Repko, CNBC, 10 July 2024
  • The union is also trying to crack down on subcontracting, which would help boost demand for union drivers during a slack time in the Hollywood economy.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 12 July 2024
  • Niedermeyer said that despite Musk’s frequent protests, the state has never been very aggressive about cracking down on his companies’ missteps .
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
  • California, where Dunkle lives, has also shifted its drug policies, cracking down harder in recent years on people who perpetuate use.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024
  • Trump also wants to crack down on immigration, which could cut off the stream of immigrant workers who have buoyed the strong U.S. labor market without rekindling inflation.
    — Rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 12 July 2024
  • Vallas wants the police to crack down on crime in the city.
    — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The new city law is aimed at cracking down on short-term rentals.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Ohio passed legislation that year to crack down on pill mills.
    — David Ovalle, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Meanwhile, TikTok is cracking down on some users who post frequently about the weight loss drugs.
    — Katie Palmer and Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 20 July 2023
  • Anderson raised the spectre of the 2003 Cedar Fire to say that cracking down on encampments could reduce the risk of deadly blazes.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
  • As concerns about TikTok’s ties to China continue to mount, governments around the globe have been cracking down on the use of the app.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But the more fiercely people resisted, the harsher the government cracked down on them.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Since Modi came to power in 2014 his government has cracked down on hundreds of NGOs, choking them of funds.
    — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Senate Bill 1 would crack down on promoting students who did not pass.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Victims’ voices used to command attention when politicians were eager to crack down on crime with three strikes laws and the war on drugs.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The bill also includes measures aimed at cracking down on bad actors.
    — Marc Hogan, Pitchfork, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The vote was a surprise to many advocates, who have criticized the board for being reluctant to crack down, and some in the county, who hoped the board would put off a vote.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Despite the delay, city agencies have cracked down on vendors with and without permits.
    — Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • China has tried to crack down on human trafficking in recent years.
    — Joy Dong, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The findings of the report first surprised Sadow, given all of the headlines about bosses cracking down on remote work.
    — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The aim is to crack down on crime, including vehicle theft, retail theft and violent crime.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
  • In its ongoing mission to crack down on freeloaders, Costco has turned its attention to its beloved food courts.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
  • India cracks down on critics of coal Since then, the room for political satire has diminished.
    — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • Is Disney+ cracking down on password sharing like Netflix did?
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
  • And efforts to crack down on crime targeting carriers may be paying off.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Johnson urged by over 50 conservative groups to crack down on DEI in medical schools.
    — Fox News, 20 June 2024
  • The bulk of the condo 3.0 law is aimed at cracking down on corrupt condo boards and increasing transparency for unit owners.
    — Rebecca Liebson, Sun Sentinel, 1 July 2024
  • Putin faced no credible opposition and cracked down on free speech.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024

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