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My understanding (again only based on articles from the past 2+ years that this lawsuit has been in the works) is that it isn't codified in their agreements at all, but that they can / have either removed games from the store, or removed them from promotion (meaning you could find the game if you searched for it, but it would never show up on the storefront, for instance) in response to games being listed elsewhere cheaper. That's kind of part of the basis for this lawsuit, by my understanding - I've read that they're using those examples as evidence against Steam that they're acting anti-competitively.
Ill double check the available documents, and edit this comment, but at least when I last checked like six months ago, they only had one example, and it was Steam warning a developer for giving away free copies (if I remember right, Steam keys) on their Discord. I never saw any other solid evidence.
It's all hearsay; anyone with a search engine can find articles making claims but what's accurate or not is anyone's guess. It's all we've got to go on until the trial, most likely.