| Sentence | 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment. |
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| Definition | To prevent or restrain (oneself or another); refrain or cause to refrain.https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/restrain |
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