as in restraint
the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotions
trying to summon the willpower to resist buying any more books before finishing the unread ones I already have
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Recent Examples of willpower
The only thing bigger than the twist at the end of Wizards Beyond Waverly Place Season 2 is the willpower is took star and executive producer David Henrie to keep from spilling the beans ahead of time.
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Andy Swift, TVLine, 8 Oct. 2025
This is a rare trifecta that puts your voice, your willpower, and your aura on high.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Sep. 2025
The question is whether Israel has the willpower to step up its game in this information war.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
The crux of this issue seems to be a growing gap between what is increasingly possible with new science and declining political willpower and belief in science.
—Aj Hess, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for willpower
Andy Swift, TVLine, 8 Oct. 2025
This is a rare trifecta that puts your voice, your willpower, and your aura on high.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Sep. 2025
The question is whether Israel has the willpower to step up its game in this information war.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
The crux of this issue seems to be a growing gap between what is increasingly possible with new science and declining political willpower and belief in science.
—Aj Hess, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for willpower
Recent Examples of Synonyms for willpower
Noun
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While objecting to restraints, Robinson’s attorneys agree with the sheriff that the court should limit or ban video and photographic coverage of proceedings.—
Stepheny Price , Melissa Chrise,
FOXNews.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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To complement the architecture’s rigor, the current owners turned to designer André Mellone of Studio Mellone, known for his elegant restraint and understanding of proportion.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
24 Oct. 2025
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Safdie perceptively locates the protagonist’s troubling inner contradictions—the atavistic fury that drives him to compete and the intense self-control that competition demands—but dramatizes such outer crises as opioid addiction and conflict with his girlfriend (Emily Blunt) only schematically.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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Applied here, an EED theory would try to show both a genuine loss of self-control and a reasonable explanation for that loss.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Willpower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/willpower. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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