inhibition
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Without inhibition, Ferrier believed that we’d all be slaves to our basest impulses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
It added that more people treated with ziltivekimab had serious infections, but that was consistent with aiming for IL-6 inhibition.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
“I can be more daring in English. I can say the words or verbalize the thoughts with much less inhibition, because I am not as emotionally attached,” he explains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Although fructose and glucose produced similar short-term effects on food intake, the mice eventually developed preferences that corresponded to the degree of AgRP neuron inhibition triggered by each sugar.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
She moved in front of me with no shyness or inhibition.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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Then there’s shame and disgust, the inhibitions that nature uses to turn humans into social beings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Surely as the problems its families and couples think they’ve left behind catch up to them, others that have been long-gestating are coaxed into view by the warm atmosphere and relaxed inhibitions.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2025
And how could anyone resist letting go of pesky inhibitions with Herman’s empowering score filling up Pasadena Playhouse with pure effervescence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
You might question what everyone involved was thinking when they made “Extreme Private Eros,” but their lack of inhibitions has yielded a film like no other.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Alone, with appalling abruptness, she could shed her inhibitions.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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