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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
What the new temperance means for the future: The Warriors didn’t do all this and take the hit for losing Klay in order to just get themselves right back into Apron Land anytime soon.
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Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 15 July 2024
Some will ask why this temperance with blowing should be limited.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2024
Hartley connected his temperance and milk crusades in An Essay on Milk from 1842, arguing that milk produced in cities was impure not just because of its adulteration by contaminants like formaldehyde, but also because of its sourcing from urban swill sheds.
—Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
Nowhere is this clearer than in the history of the temperance movement whose advocacy led to Prohibition.
—Elizabeth Marshall / Made By History, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
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Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 15 July 2024
Some will ask why this temperance with blowing should be limited.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2024
Hartley connected his temperance and milk crusades in An Essay on Milk from 1842, arguing that milk produced in cities was impure not just because of its adulteration by contaminants like formaldehyde, but also because of its sourcing from urban swill sheds.
—Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
Nowhere is this clearer than in the history of the temperance movement whose advocacy led to Prohibition.
—Elizabeth Marshall / Made By History, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for temperance
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The only 100% effective way to prevent syphilis is abstinence.Heidi Cope, Health, 26 Dec. 2024
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More specifically, taking methadone or Suboxone during pregnancy can cause neonatal abstinence syndrome.Patricia Weiser, PharmD, Verywell Health, 25 Oct. 2024
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The only daughter of the late King of Pop Michael Jackson, who is an actress, model and singer, celebrated five years of sobriety from drugs and alcohol in an emotional video post on Instagram Tuesday.Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
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Paris Jackson is starting the new year by celebrating a major achievement–five years of sobriety.Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 7 Jan. 2025
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Arteta’s standards of discipline outweighed Aubameyang’s goalscoring.Phil Hay, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
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However, her lifelong dedication to dance and cheer tells a story less about luck and more about the discipline, ambition and heart famously needed to become a Cowboys Cheerleader.Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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The new law mandates that children must be informed of their rights — including the right to contact state social service workers and the California Office of the Foster Care Ombudsperson — within one day of seclusion or restraints being used.Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 27 Dec. 2024
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The suspect, 55-year-old Rose Anderson of Houston, appeared before the Harris County Magistrate on Sunday, Dec. 22, where she was charged with injury to a child and unlawful restraint.Luke Chinman, People.com, 23 Dec. 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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But the biblical term for self-denial – inui – has another meaning.Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2024
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The Ford Focus Electric, with its appealing, Euro-hatchback lines, lacks the frumpy feel of self-denial often associated with electric cars.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2012
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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 13 Jan. 2025.
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