as in temperance
an avoidance of extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits
the kind of person who does everything in moderation
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Recent Examples of moderation
Signs of moderation have already appeared.
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Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
The letter came after Jordan’s congressional committee subpoenaed the company for information on its moderation practices.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
OpenAI included numerous guardrails with Sora, including moderation, restrictions on scammy, violent and pornographic material, watermarks and controls over how one's likeness is used.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
Advertisement Discord’s executives can promise better content moderation and oversight.
—Jonathon Reed, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
These courts ruled that prior lawsuits addressed the same facts and that a law called Section 230 gave the social media companies legal immunity for content-moderation decisions.
—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
OpenAI is developing LLMs for content moderation.
—John Wihbey, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
OpenAI said Sora includes multiple layers of safeguards meant to prevent unsafe content from being generated, using prompt filtering and output moderation across video frames and audio transcripts.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
The company also indicated the app lacked robust content moderation to block objectionable user-generation content.
—Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
The letter came after Jordan’s congressional committee subpoenaed the company for information on its moderation practices.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
OpenAI included numerous guardrails with Sora, including moderation, restrictions on scammy, violent and pornographic material, watermarks and controls over how one's likeness is used.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
Advertisement Discord’s executives can promise better content moderation and oversight.
—Jonathon Reed, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
These courts ruled that prior lawsuits addressed the same facts and that a law called Section 230 gave the social media companies legal immunity for content-moderation decisions.
—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
OpenAI is developing LLMs for content moderation.
—John Wihbey, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
OpenAI said Sora includes multiple layers of safeguards meant to prevent unsafe content from being generated, using prompt filtering and output moderation across video frames and audio transcripts.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
The company also indicated the app lacked robust content moderation to block objectionable user-generation content.
—Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moderation
temperance
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The temperance movement, which aimed to reduce alcohol use, gained steam in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
16 Sep. 2025
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The movie clip reveals how much temperance, humanity, and transcendence Mary Jackson needs to navigate a system that has embedded injustices that few see or understand.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Moderation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moderation. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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