abstinence
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Americans remain among the world’s leaders in per capita meat consumption, and even our vegetarians tend to abandon their abstinence sooner or later.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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
They are concerned that encouraging abstinence from particular foods could trigger binge eating and extreme dieting to compensate.
From Salon • Oct. 13, 2025
California is not being accused of failing to carry out the abstinence and contraception message.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2025
“You don’t eat ’em,” returned Mr. Pumblechook, sighing and nodding his head several times, as if he might have expected that, and as if abstinence from watercresses were consistent with my downfall.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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