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Six example sentences with inhibition, each labelled with its topic.
Therapy sessions traced the man's inhibition to a childhood rule that anger must never be admitted, even privately.
Psychology
The painter described a lifelong inhibition that kept certain memories out of her work until she reached sixty.
Art
The diary records an inhibition so complete that the writer never let herself name what she wanted from her own life.
Literature
The singer's inhibition melted after the first chorus, and by the bridge she was leaning into the front row.
Music
The rookie played with no inhibition in his debut, taking the open three every time instead of passing it away.
Basketball
Brainstorming rules ban criticism for the first hour precisely to lower inhibition so people voice the wild idea.
Business
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