abstinence
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"Our goal is not necessarily total abstinence for everyone," said Dr. Pongthep Wongwatcharapaiboon, director of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation, a government agency.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Like many millennials, I grew up at the peak of the American abstinence education movement and the American evangelical obsession with virginity.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
She adds that the outperformance of RTDs and smaller pack sizes suggests that at least part of the drop in volumes is caused by squeezed budgets, rather than abstinence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Then, in 1894, the Kellogg brothers — also advocates of vegetarianism, exercise, abstinence from meat and alcohol, and other principles of that “clean living movement” — accidentally developed Corn Flakes.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026
Fifteen minutes later, noticing that the supply of hot dogs in the little well was visibly diminishing, he decided in favor of abstinence for the moment.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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