social code
Example Sentences
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With bugs, we’ve developed a sort of social code around which to kill and which to save.
From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2022
But with each passing decade, his vision of a rigidly enforced social code and the dangers of a mob mentality have come to seem more and more prescient.
From Fox News • Mar. 20, 2020
Ignoring the social code of 1904, a wealthy child befriends three sisters whose family members work as servants next door.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2019
It’s the timeworn social code of the Old Boys’ network, in part.
From Slate • Dec. 21, 2018
It was an important rule in their social code to appear as strangers in-doors, although they would wait for each other outside, and compare lists.
From A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs by Hutton, Laurence
