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discipline

[dis-uh-plin] / ˈdɪs ə plɪn /




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“The real question now is whether that discipline survives the arrival of SpaceX, the most anticipated IPO of the decade,” she said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

“I’ve been working on discipline to look for my pitch.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

Children need positive discipline and they need, they need to be able to de-escalate when things get stressful.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

He also found Gisèle de Lestrange, the French printmaker he married in 1952, a companion whose discipline steadied him but could not protect either of them from his intensities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Ironically, even though embryology had launched the discipline of modern genetics, the reconciliation between genes and genesis would be a vastly more engaging scientific problem.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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