restraint
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Still, there’s a possibility that gasoline prices could see further declines this week as long as the U.S. and Iran are both “preaching restraint and working toward a solution,” De Haan told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
In other words, the DNA acts as an activation switch rather than a restraint.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
“Warsh’s refusal to give forward guidance risks being self-defeating: the market-driven restraint he’s counting on eased as the front end rallied,” said Ali Hassan, portfolio manager at Thornburg Investment Management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Description and style can take hold without restraint.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
It was another way of saying that she was spying on the spies—a job that required both skill and restraint.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
These drugs are a form of immunotherapy that works by removing some of the molecular restraints that normally keep immune activity under control.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
All but one of the 10 coasters that Six Flags temporarily closed following the fatal fall are B&M rides, and all feature the same clamshell-style lap-bar safety restraints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
“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
Kelly was a slender white woman in her mid-thirties who walked into the room wearing no restraints or handcuffs.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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