restraint
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Rana said police had shown restraint and used "minimal force for a very short time" because the protesters were students.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Her restraint is the commendable trait on which the women hang their devotion.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
“I think there is a strong case there” for adding restraint and taking back some of last year’s rate cuts, Barkin said in an interview Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"Investors have come to view that restraint as a strength rather than a weakness, particularly as capex commitments at Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon run into the hundreds of billions of dollars each."
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Lelia taught him not to bite through it: a good lesson in restraint.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
Both have player drafts, salary caps, free-agency rules and other restraints that would be suspicious in ordinary markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Specificity is key, because AI recommendations are going to be more targeted if there are more restraints in the prompt.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
Azerbaijani singer Jiva fought against restraints as she sang Just Go, a furious exorcism of a toxic relationship.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
“Regulation is not about slowing down progress. It is about asking questions and saying that in the absence of answers, we’re going to put on reasonable restraints that we can revisit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026
I’d been fighting the moment I left Thurmond, struggling against the restraints everyone wanted to wrap around me, kicking and clawing against the inevitable.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Vocabulary lists containing restraint
Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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Excerpts from "Jacobson v. Massachusetts"
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Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 4
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