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desistance

[dih-sis-tuhns, -zis-] / dɪˈsɪs təns, -ˈzɪs- /














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Voting is “part of a package of pro-social behavior that is linked to desistance from crime.”

From Washington Post Oct. 17, 2022

The idea that many trans kids will grow out of it is referred to in research as desistance.

From The Verge Jul. 30, 2021

In three of the studies, participants who didn’t follow up with the researchers in adolescence or adulthood were assumed to be desistant, again inaccurately raising the desistance percentage.

From The Verge Jul. 30, 2021

It’s a metric inconsistent with what we know about the rocky reality of desistance.

From Washington Post May 16, 2019

All these charges were quieted by intrigue, bribery of the judges, or desistance of the accuser.

From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon




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