discipline
Example Sentences
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“We achieved this staggering growth with a hiring discipline that is too rare in the software industry today,” Karp wrote to shareholders.
From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026
College sports have long been a pathway not only to professional opportunity but also to personal growth, discipline and self-control.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
If you lack investment discipline and don’t have a plan to handle your winners and losers, you are likely fated to lose more than you should—and to earn less than you could.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
“You have to discipline yourself to step aside and let your kid do it,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
As they moved from discipline to discipline, the new scientists carried with them a set of assumptions about how to construct new knowledge.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing discipline
The Outsiders
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 3
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