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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

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

The most frequently cited desistance statistic is that around 80 percent of kids who experience gender dysphoria will go on to be cisgender adults.

From The Verge • Jul. 30, 2021

A year of existence Has passed to the distance     Ne'er to return: To the right was resistance, From duty desistance,     Nor would I learn.

From Verses of Feeling and Fancy by MacKeracher, Wm. M.