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Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle-of-the-roadism
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The film combines personal sacrifice with the broader struggle for independence.—
Jené Luciani Sena
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Alessa Li shouldn’t be surprised that she and her cohort at the Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted have been prepared as human sacrifices, considering that she was kidnapped in the first place.—
Natalie Zutter
June 30,
Literary Hub,
30 June 2025
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Channel your inner frugality with these cost-saving measures for your garden.—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 June 2025
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If there’s another deficit, as seems likely, candidates who spent the past year preaching frugality will fare better than those pushing profligacy.—
John Seiler,
Oc Register,
31 May 2025
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But Constance offered no more in her own defense, for all her mortification.—
Jim Shepard,
New Yorker,
8 June 2025
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Oldman’s face, set in brooding concentration, evokes a pained, vaguely incredulous mortification, which builds to a bitter, almost paralyzing ruefulness.—
Houman Barekat,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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That kind of asceticism seemed neither fun nor sustainable.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
11 June 2025
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Role models for digital moderation, much less asceticism, are in short supply.—
Jack Butler,
National Review,
11 May 2025
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But the biblical term for self-denial – inui – has another meaning.—
Rabbi Avi Weiss,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Oct. 2024
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The Ford Focus Electric, with its appealing, Euro-hatchback lines, lacks the frumpy feel of self-denial often associated with electric cars.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 Mar. 2012
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This period of fiscal austerity and penny-pinching has fueled creative workarounds.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2025
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Corporate and individual spending is currently plagued by austerity measures, which means the entrepreneurial leader’s approach must be even sharper.—
Cynthia Pong,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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In Aries, a Fire sign that thrives on taking the lead, we’re called to channel our energy into personal goals and self-discipline.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
21 June 2025
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When food became more accessible, especially in Western cultures, thinness replaced fullness as a marker of status and self-discipline.—
Anne Marie Chaker,
Time,
18 June 2025
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Shams Charania’s debut as part of ESPN’s NBA Draft coverage last week doubled as a herculean exercise in restraint.—
Peter A. Berry,
Rolling Stone,
29 June 2025
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Most were secular, or observed religion privately and with restraint.—
Kian Tajbakhsh,
The Atlantic,
27 June 2025
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