abstinence
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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
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
It also noted his "lifelong abstinence" from tobacco and alcohol.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Americans remain among the world’s leaders in per capita meat consumption, and even our vegetarians tend to abandon their abstinence sooner or later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
This abstinence does not result from unique environmental conditions such as a severe lack of food or want of potential mates.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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