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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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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.
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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
Barnum did this by staging temperance drama, and Keene by bringing the leg show to the middle class.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 2024
The central mission of the WCTU, which specifically appealed to Christian women, was to promote temperance in drinking habits by challenging the liquor interests.
—Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
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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
Barnum did this by staging temperance drama, and Keene by bringing the leg show to the middle class.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 2024
The central mission of the WCTU, which specifically appealed to Christian women, was to promote temperance in drinking habits by challenging the liquor interests.
—Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
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Prescriptions of online abstinence are nothing new, but Pressly offers a unique vision of what can be gained by stepping back from the outside world, and the screens that try to possess us.John Kaag, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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Savvy promoters of abstinence, the WCTU had a broad reach and employed a variety of tactics to circulate their claims about the physical maladies and social harms caused by alcohol.Elizabeth Marshall / Made by History, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
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Tom Holland is the latest star to break into the non-alcoholic spirits space, two years into his sobriety journey.Anna Tingley, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
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Tom Holland is creating the non-alcoholic beer of his dreams nearly three years into his sobriety journey.Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
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Each discipline offers its own unique benefits and challenges, but the rewards are well worth the effort.Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
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Democrats have long tolerated Biden’s total lack of verbal discipline.Philip Elliott, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
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But at Lupi & Iris, helmed by James Beard Award-winner Adam Seigel, restraint is an art, and the food, inspired by the French and Italian Riviera, needn’t be flashy nor festooned to be fawned over.Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
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But neither restraint nor elegance was on hand with a recent job, for which she was tasked with re-creating the pouffy locks of the nineteen-eighties.Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 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 5 Nov. 2024.
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