self-containment

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Recent Examples of self-containment Throughout the crisis, her burgeoning friendship with the hostage’s wife, challenges Barb’s usual sense of propriety and self-containment. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025 Cregger maintains the film’s self-containment. Andy Crump, Time, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-containment
restraint
Noun
  • The ship brings history and perhaps some English restraint to the world’s cruise capital.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
  • D’Angelo understood the ways in which restraint can be infinitely more haunting—and more alluring—than aggression.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Self-containment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-containment. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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