desistance
Example Sentences
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Rather, they use the threat of certain but nonsevere punishments to encourage people to find their own paths to desistance.
From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2021
The most frequently cited desistance statistic is that around 80 percent of kids who experience gender dysphoria will go on to be cisgender adults.
From The Verge • Jul. 30, 2021
In three of the studies, participants who didn’t follow up with the researchers in adolescence or adulthood were assumed to be desistant, again inaccurately raising the desistance percentage.
From The Verge • Jul. 30, 2021
It’s a metric inconsistent with what we know about the rocky reality of desistance.
From Washington Post • May 16, 2019
This comparative want of enjoyment which we have named as a cause of early desistance from artificial exercises, is also a cause of inferiority in the effects they produce on the system.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
