abstinent
Example Sentences
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Adding low-nicotine cigarettes to standard cessation support “may help some smokers to become abstinent,” Walker and colleagues wrote in the March 2012 issue of Addiction.
From Science Magazine
Until a time when monkeypox hopefully abates, this can and should mean reducing our number of partners, skipping sex parties, practicing monogamy and even being abstinent.
From Washington Post
“I might choose for all children to stay abstinent from sex till they’re 23 years old and married, but I know that choice is not real,” she told the Oregonian newspaper in 1994.
From Washington Post
“The restaurant business tends to require a lot of face-to-face contact, and that makes those jobs harder right now, wearing masks, dealing with abstinent customers, and the risk of getting COVID,” she said.
From Washington Times
And women who use cannabis may differ from abstinent women in other ways that put their children at risk for behavioral issues.
From Seattle Times
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