self-command

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-command
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
  • But the promise of fiscal discipline has become a straightjacket.
    Oliver Eagleton, Time, 5 July 2025
  • Our options are to chase growth and tolerate inflation siphoning away most of the progress, impose austerity and trigger a populist backlash, or adopt a neutral monetary protocol and accept the discipline that comes with it.
    Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • She was eventually taken off her flight and reportedly booked a new ticket after regaining her composure, per the outlet.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 11 July 2025
  • Stevens’s reflections on his years of service reveal what’s pulsing beneath his composure: the choice to look away from troubling secrets and repress personal desires.
    Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • The costs of academic repression, in other words, are not confined to elite institutions—they are borne by everyone.
    Matt Motta, Scientific American, 10 July 2025
  • Mac's deeply closeted, Catholic-guilty homosexuality had been treated as a joke throughout the show's run, with the joke never truly being about Mac being gay, but about how his desperate repression had twisted him into a caricature of grasping masculinity.
    Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Before the month comes to a close, Mercury will station retrograde in Leo, activating your 12th house of secrets, surrender and your subconscious, bringing up old memories or inhibitions that have been clouding your clarity.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 July 2025
  • Reservations and inhibitions have a way of slipping away in the Snake Pit.
    Shari Rudavsky, IndyStar, 2 July 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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“Self-command.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-command. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.

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