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pathos

[pey-thos, -thohs, -thaws] / ˈpeɪ θɒs, -θoʊs, -θɔs /


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Pathos will be mined from the tale of a wrestler.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

The trial, known as Pathos, is using minimally invasive surgery carried out by robotic or laser methods, and lower doses of chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2024

Pathos not being much of a dramatic engine, Wright works very hard, if fictionally, to crank up the stakes.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

Pathos is meant to inspire sympathy and understanding in the viewer.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Thanks to my constitutional childishness, they have always sounded to me like the names by which the Three Musketeers really should have been known: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith




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