restraint
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With that restraint reduced, the neurons became more active.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
The design of the cockpit and restraint were identified as aggravating factors, but the report acknowledged any structural design change would likely require "significant moderations".
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Perhaps the sensible position lies somewhere between Ms. Noonan’s alarm and Mr. Jenkins’s restraint: Be cautious about the frontier, but decisive about responsible adoption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
With the U.S. dollar, what protects its value is the restraint of the government officials who manage it.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
The glad days that dawned gave me liberty for the free play of impulse and, from anxiety and restraint, I leaped to license and thoughtless action.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
“Certainly, the trajectory has been in the direction of more restraints on press access than less,” Rottman added.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
He then mocked one of the main topics of this year’s General Assembly—an effort to put restraints on artificial intelligence, which Trump said should be called superintelligence, because the word artificial makes it sound “fake.”
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Agents and bots in its labs were caught scheming, hiding errors and ignoring restraints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
That leads to a long discussion of the use of restraints on the elderly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
As Kit looked back at him mutely, the restraints that held the tensely waiting crowd gave way.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
Vocabulary lists containing restraint
Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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Excerpts from "Jacobson v. Massachusetts"
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Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 4
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