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credo

[kree-doh, krey-] / ˈkri doʊ, ˈkreɪ- /
NOUN
belief
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Glaser’s aesthetic credo for the venue was appropriately grandiose: “A journey to the promised land, an adventure in imagination, the pursuit of the unexpected.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Irving calls this decade a time to continue to contribute, and he’s living that credo.

From MarketWatch Aug. 23, 2026

We’re going to contain that so that we can keep the ’90s credo going.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 15, 2025

You also note that throughout the book you explore an eighth credo, the divide between "grace" and "nature" that "distinguishes and creates a hierarchy between humans and the rest of the planet."

From Salon May 26, 2025

To support this credo, he submitted a goodly number of original drawings and oil paintings.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

These include its “language of righteousness, of piety, of guilt, of sin,” along with “orthodoxies, credos, purity tests and jargon.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

You write that you find seven of the Puritan credos "to be most pervasive and problematic" and you devote a chapter to each.

From Salon May 26, 2025

“Less is more” was famously one of the composer Stephen Sondheim’s aesthetic credos.

From New York Times Mar. 8, 2023

Here’s a look at crackpot credos that flourished and foundered in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 21, 2022

Have we taken to good heart the divine record of love, of faith, which an æsthetic age has sublimated into credos, and left actions as a caput mortuum?

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various




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