Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
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She had no control of her body as she tumbled downhill. She did not know up from down. It was not unlike being cartwheeled in a relentlessly crashing wave.
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2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=SP_SNT_20130415#/?part=tunnel-creek:
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The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
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2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27: