restraint
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“I find a lot of the restraint changes my breathing when I look at it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Its embassy in Tirana urged "restraint and calm on all sides".
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
In an unsigned order, they said Cooper’s order was overly broad and needed to “counsel judicial deference and restraint in the context of discovery regarding internal Executive Branch communications.”
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
He said he saw the cart come into the hub where others were waiting in line and could see the restraint was unlatched.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
He tells it in the true Greek manner, simply and with restraint.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
Dozens of images showed children travelling without age-appropriate restraints.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 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
Biologists used to entertain themselves by speculating as to what would happen if, through some unthinkable catastrophe, the natural restraints were thrown off and all the progeny of a single individual survived.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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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