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as in temperateness
an avoidance of extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits
my father attributes his ripe old age to temperance in all things, especially eating and drinking
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as in abstinence
voluntary restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetites
practices a blue-blooded temperance that his parvenu neighbors will never understand
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Recent Examples of temperance
This year’s office Christmas parties, however, are set to do away with the booze and instead become afloat with mocktails and artisanal sodas, as bosses react to their Gen Z staffers’ new urge for temperance.
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Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 8 Oct. 2024
That meant advocating for temperance and women’s suffrage.
—Marissa C. Rhodes / Made By History, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
While an economic slowdown may be the real reason for Gen Z breaking with the older generations and embracing temperance, their employers aren’t pinching the pennies this festive season.
—Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 8 Oct. 2024
Stimson believed the parallel crusades for temperance and women’s suffrage would remove power from the saloons and restore it to the family home.
—Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
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Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 8 Oct. 2024
That meant advocating for temperance and women’s suffrage.
—Marissa C. Rhodes / Made By History, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
While an economic slowdown may be the real reason for Gen Z breaking with the older generations and embracing temperance, their employers aren’t pinching the pennies this festive season.
—Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 8 Oct. 2024
Stimson believed the parallel crusades for temperance and women’s suffrage would remove power from the saloons and restore it to the family home.
—Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for temperance
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Texture was never Eastwood’s strong point; his films have mainly been stark and spare, with a sense of style that can nearly be defined as an abstinence from style.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
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Those who knew Francis commonly attributed her longevity to her lifelong abstinence from alcohol and smoking.Dawn Sawyer, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
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Illenium opened up about his journey of finding sobriety and going on to became a stadium filling artist in his Billboard cover story this past March.Katie Bain, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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From the start, Riley seems to be at her breaking point dealing with stardom and sobriety.Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 26 Oct. 2024
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If Trump loses, Republicans will bemoan his lack of discipline, selecting Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate and not employing Nikki Haley on the campaign trail.Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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In my opinion, discipline is the backbone of success in both running and business.Nazar Gulyk, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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But those seeking restraint and something more clever than the usual carnage will find this talky (in a good way) creeper offers more to chew on than the genre norm.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Perched on a drum riser, Carey balanced forcefulness and restraint, heaviness and subtlety, density and spaciousness.Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2024
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This includes the five major types: stress incontinence, urge incontinence, mixed incontinence, overflow incontinence, and functional continence.Jamin Brahmbhatt, Verywell Health, 29 July 2024
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Good posture helps maintain continence, support pelvic organs, and reduce back pain.Staci Tanouye, Parents, 29 Aug. 2023
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Loneliness gets to the heart of the spiritual dissatisfaction and self-denial seen post-Covid and in both the pro-Hamas and pro–George Floyd rioting.Armond White, National Review, 10 May 2024
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Crace transports readers 2,000 years into the past to a stark Biblical landscape full of visceral encounters, violence, self-denial, and possible miracles.Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2024
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The audience responds gratefully to this level of self-abnegation, and the frankly chilling sounds that come out of her.Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
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His self-abnegation proved successful: Trump endorsed him, and Vance won the primary and then the general election.Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
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“Temperance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temperance. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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