restraint
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Its embassy in Tirana urged "restraint and calm on all sides".
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
In an unsigned order, they said Cooper’s order was overly broad and needed to “counsel judicial deference and restraint in the context of discovery regarding internal Executive Branch communications.”
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
The government added it hoped airports would "exercise restraint on rises, particularly where there are limited public transport alternatives".
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
But if that restraint withers, “there could be damage that would interrupt flows for a long time, even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely open,” said McNally.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
The overriding honesty and intimacy of the correspondence with Rush permitted this projection to express itself without restraint.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
“Certainly, the trajectory has been in the direction of more restraints on press access than less,” Rottman added.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
He then mocked one of the main topics of this year’s General Assembly—an effort to put restraints on artificial intelligence, which Trump said should be called superintelligence, because the word artificial makes it sound “fake.”
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Both have player drafts, salary caps, free-agency rules and other restraints that would be suspicious in ordinary markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Dr Amy Grubb, associate professor of forensic psychology at the University, said posting comments online creates the "perfect storm" for abuse as the "digital environments reduce normal social restraints".
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
He waves his hand, and my burning restraints loosen enough to fall in a pile at my ankles.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing restraint
Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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Excerpts from "Jacobson v. Massachusetts"
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Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 4
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