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desistance

[dih-sis-tuhns, -zis-] / dɪˈsɪs təns, -ˈzɪs- /














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Voting is “part of a package of pro-social behavior that is linked to desistance from crime.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2022

Rather, they use the threat of certain but nonsevere punishments to encourage people to find their own paths to desistance.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2021

The idea that many trans kids will grow out of it is referred to in research as desistance.

From The Verge ● Jul. 30, 2021

In three of the studies, participants who didn’t follow up with the researchers in adolescence or adulthood were assumed to be desistant, again inaccurately raising the desistance percentage.

From The Verge ● Jul. 30, 2021

Not that mental activity which is spontaneous and enjoyable does the mischief; but that which is persevered in after a hot or aching head commands desistance.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer


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