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
It concludes a 40-day period known as Lent, during which Christians focus on prayer, almsgiving, and practice traditions such as abstinence from eating meat on certain days.
From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026
He spoke to Abra of the necessity for abstinence and decided that he would live a life of celibacy.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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