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verb

past tense of discipline

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Recent Examples of disciplined
Adjective
Mardi Gras allows people to celebrate before the Lenten season, where people become more disciplined and give up habits for 40 days. Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025 Their integration into the cybersecurity workforce not only mitigates these risks but also capitalizes on a disciplined and mission-oriented talent pool. Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
But just as in childhood, patience in investing ultimately delivers its rewards to those disciplined enough to endure the wait. Robert Daugherty, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025 Demonstrators had also demanded amnesty for students and faculty disciplined or arrested during protests. Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disciplined
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disciplined
Adjective
  • The surgeon is basically trying to make a very controlled and aesthetic scar—after all, a belly button is just an umbilical scar.
    Meirav Devash, Allure, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The program's framework encourages a cooperative relationship with the IRS, allowing taxpayers to address discrepancies in a more controlled and predictable manner.
    Jessica Ledingham, J.D., LL.M., Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • As of now, the exemption does not seem to extend to 20% tariffs on Chinese imports implemented earlier this year tied to fentanyl — but certainly, 20% is significantly more manageable than 145%.
    Kevin Stankiewicz,Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Amy Li, a representative of the Office of the Independent Budget Analyst, told council members that the price tag was manageable even amid a deficit.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Some medieval and Renaissance artists, for example, portrayed Mary breast-feeding the infant Jesus at a chaste distance, such that the milk spurts of its own accord into his mouth.
    S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Hellbent on destroying the pure, chaste and overly self-righteous preacher who denied her satisfaction, Salome performs a seductive dance at her stepfather Herod’s birthday feast.
    E.R. Zarevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Duran is currently serving a three-match suspension after the club failed in a bid to overturn it but could now be punished further.
    Ben Burrows, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Or will they be punished for what Gi-hun and his friends tried to do in the Season 2 finale?
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Simmons' initial reaction to the insult was a bit more restrained than his typical unfiltered comments.
    Marina Watts, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • This year, the prestigious but far more restrained perpetual calendar was the complication of choice.
    Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In 1971, at the age of 21, Modi became a pracharak—a member of a bureaucracy of celibate Hindu men working for the RSS.
    Kanchan Chandra, Foreign Affairs, 30 Mar. 2017
  • If someone is celibate, don’t guess their theology.
    Big Think, Big Think, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • And, when the U.S. government began requesting the extradition of the leaders, the Salvadoran courts, subservient to Bukele, repeatedly found excuses to avoid handing them over.
    Danielle Mackey, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Professional associations, such as the Association of German Universities, stayed silent, ignoring key opportunities to resist before universities lost their autonomy and became subservient to the Nazi state.
    Iveta Silova, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • While industries evolve and AI transforms work, a company’s commitment to its weekly all-hands meeting or quarterly offsite can remain steadfast.
    Susanne Biro, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The administration's steadfast message in recent days has been that the tariffs were coming and there was no way out.
    Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 7 Apr. 2025

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“Disciplined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disciplined. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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