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ID: SAT-RW-CS-039
Section: SAT Reading & Writing (RW) – Craft and Structure
Topic: Words in Context
Difficulty level: Medium

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The editor’s great gift was for compression. A younger writer’s paragraph, swollen with qualifications, would reach her desk and come back halved, yet every idea survived; she seemed able to check a sentence’s sprawl without ever cutting its sense.

As used in the text, what does the word “check” most nearly mean?

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