refrainment

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Noun
  • 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
  • Most were secular, or observed religion privately and with restraint.
    Kian Tajbakhsh, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • This kind of discipline builds clarity, momentum and trust.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • The prompt-a-thon process reframes prompting as a high-impact diagnostic and design discipline—engineered for fast, actionable insight.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Human rights groups have also warned that near-total internet blackouts across Iran can be used as a tool of repression, blocking the population from sharing information with the outside world.
    Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 25 June 2025
  • Decades of repression, economic mismanagement and growing legitimacy crises have left the regime weakened at home.
    Pegah Banihashemi, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • For how much their environment (interactions with people) impacted them, men showed more inhibition than women.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
  • Its ability to lower inhibitions and amplify emotions can turn minor arguments into serious, sometimes dangerous conflicts.
    Tribune Content Agency, Mercury News, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Firefighters are engaged in aggressive suppression efforts, supported by multiple aircraft and ground resources.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 29 June 2025
  • In states that have money for fire suppression readily available, contractors may be more confident that they’ll be paid on time.
    Sarah Cutler June 28, Idaho Statesman, 28 June 2025
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“Refrainment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refrainment. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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