as in abstinence
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Recent Examples of teetotalism
Drink makers are also facing an existential threat from a growing tide of teetotalism, especially from Gen Z drinkers.
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Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 30 Jan. 2024
Among Cogswell’s obsessions was teetotalism.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022
Colorado Off-Slope Experience Even though Utah has a reputation for tilting toward teetotalism, this battle isn’t a walkover for Colorado.
—Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
For the past few years, Americans have increasingly dabbled with teetotalism.
—Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 25 Jan. 2020
Perhaps a sequel might suggest that Adolf Hitler’s teetotalism put him in a tetchy mood; a relaxing glass of schnapps might have kept him out of Poland.
—New York Times, 30 May 2018
Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 30 Jan. 2024
Among Cogswell’s obsessions was teetotalism.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022
Colorado Off-Slope Experience Even though Utah has a reputation for tilting toward teetotalism, this battle isn’t a walkover for Colorado.
—Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
For the past few years, Americans have increasingly dabbled with teetotalism.
—Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 25 Jan. 2020
Perhaps a sequel might suggest that Adolf Hitler’s teetotalism put him in a tetchy mood; a relaxing glass of schnapps might have kept him out of Poland.
—New York Times, 30 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teetotalism
Noun
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Those leaders encouraged independent Black education, community development, abstinence from drugs and alcohol and many other changes.—
Ahmed Ali Akbar,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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Thus Mardi Gras is that last party before the marked time of abstinence.—
Jenny Adams,
AFAR Media,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Elsbeth and Kaya can’t quite square this guy’s staunch defense of Hayley’s sobriety with the alarmingly aggressive behavior Angus witnessed Charles directing at Hayley shortly before her death.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2025
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Related Articles Purdue Pharma and owners to pay $7.4 billion in settlement to lawsuits over the toll of OxyContin Opinion: What’s the truth about sobriety?—
Ethan Varian,
The Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Catholicism offers ritual without the tedium of rationality; anarchism offers revolutionary action against inequality without the taint of materialism, the prospect of personal gain.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Before compassion and empathy, he was trained, taught, and raised to live in a world of pragmatism and rationality over emotion.—
Chris Gallagher,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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The vote was 204 in favor of impeachment and 85 voting against it; voting in three abstentions and eight votes were ruled invalid, NBC News reported.—
Ruxandra Iordache,
CNBC,
14 Dec. 2024
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With five votes in favor and two abstentions, the board named Cory Wilson, the assistant superintendent of educational services, the interim superintendent.—
Cody Copeland,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Jan. 2025
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The feats, the ecstasies, the prostrations and abnegations.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2025
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The explicit and quasi-religious abnegation of the right to violent self-defense put the national committee at odds with one of its key allies during the Saturday march: Black Lives Matter.—
Samantha Eyler,
Foreign Affairs,
31 Jan. 2017
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“Teetotalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teetotalism. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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