discipline

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Tony Adams, at number four, was part of a transition from George Graham's discipline to the progressive approach of Arsene Wenger - captaining Arsenal to league titles in three different decades.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

It also provides a useful check on discipline, ensuring that lessons from both successes and missteps are carried forward.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

“Teaching me discipline, making me a better man and setting me up for life.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

In the past, market discipline hasn’t always been enough to prevent private student lenders from partnering with schools with poor outcomes to offer arguably predatory loans often to low-income students.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

The nineteenth-century realization that the living cell was no more than a bag of interconnected chemical reactions had launched a powerful discipline fusing biology and chemistry—biochemistry.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee