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as in temperateness
an avoidance of extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits
my father attributes his ripe old age to temperance in all things, especially eating and drinking
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as in abstinence
voluntary restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetites
practices a blue-blooded temperance that his parvenu neighbors will never understand
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Recent Examples of temperance
Accountability, collaboration, courage, humility, justice, temperance, drive, integrity, judgment, transcendence, and humanity.
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Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 16 July 2025
The temperance drive didn’t work so well, but the caffeine fixation stuck.
—Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2025
Ada is also upset that, in the entire household, only Miss Armstrong signed the temperance pledge.
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 7 July 2025
Her followers marched in drinking institutions and demanded change and many of the disgruntled or bullied patrons signed statements of temperance.
—Arkansas Online, 10 May 2025
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Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 16 July 2025
The temperance drive didn’t work so well, but the caffeine fixation stuck.
—Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2025
Ada is also upset that, in the entire household, only Miss Armstrong signed the temperance pledge.
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 7 July 2025
Her followers marched in drinking institutions and demanded change and many of the disgruntled or bullied patrons signed statements of temperance.
—Arkansas Online, 10 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for temperance
Noun
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The Catholic Church believes intercourse should only happen between married couples and teaches abstinence for all others.—
Ladan Anoushfar,
CNN Money,
1 Sep. 2025
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The grants are used to teach adolescents about abstinence and contraception.—
Geoff Mulvihill,
Fortune,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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While Roblox has filters and moderation, kids can still be exposed to inappropriate language, scams, or unsafe conversations.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
5 Sep. 2025
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While the state planner didn’t specify which part of the sector needs moderation, investment has been particularly pronounced globally in constructing datacenters that underpin AI development.—
Bloomberg,
Fortune,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Many of the episodes released so far have addressed Chase's sobriety struggles, as well as Harvey's favoritism of him over his other grandchildren.—
Dory Jackson,
People.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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His sentencing was postponed until after his completion of a sobriety program, and the defense argued his drug addiction was the root cause of both the crash and the cocaine dealing.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Battery dismantling requires skills that cross multiple disciplines.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Sep. 2025
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Hufnagel, a 60-year-old who graduated from Barry University’s School of Law in 2005 and joined the Bar later that year, had an otherwise clean 10-year discipline history.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
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Americans for Prosperity ― Ogles' former employer and that of many of his congressional staff ― is a political special interest group that advocates for limited government, free markets and fiscal restraint.—
Vivian Jones,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Sep. 2025
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Enyedi has often made meditative cinema, but here her restraint in some sequences verges on suffocating.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This includes the five major types: stress incontinence, urge incontinence, mixed incontinence, overflow incontinence, and functional continence.—
Jamin Brahmbhatt,
Verywell Health,
29 July 2024
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Good posture helps maintain continence, support pelvic organs, and reduce back pain.—
Staci Tanouye,
Parents,
29 Aug. 2023
Noun
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Saint Anthony was an Egyptian monk whose relics were brought to France during the Crusades in the Middle Ages, after inspiring many people to take up seclusion and self-denial.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Crace transports readers two thousand years into the past to a stark Biblical landscape full of visceral encounters, violence, self-denial, and possible miracles.—
Mia Barzilay Freund,
Vogue,
7 July 2025
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Her vocation requires the skill of transformation and self-abnegation, as well as a receptiveness to language and emotion not her own.—
Jordan Kisner,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2025
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The audience responds gratefully to this level of self-abnegation, and the frankly chilling sounds that come out of her.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2024
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“Temperance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temperance. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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