ethos

Example Sentences

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The selloff is one of the most extreme examples yet of the sell-now, ask-later ethos sweeping financial markets in the artificial intelligence era.

From The Wall Street Journal

In front of the jury of six men and women, Mosseri also pushed back against the idea that Meta was motivated by a "move fast and break things" ethos that valued profit over safety.

From Barron's

This ethos is encapsulated in one of her favorite posters, which declares: “Blessed are the queers cooking each other’s meals.”

From Los Angeles Times

Here, Melville is an American Kafka or Gogol, and in this guise, he skewers our pervasive national ethos that values ambition and striving above all.

From The Wall Street Journal

As a child, new addresses were presented as progress — for your dad’s job — as my family absorbed an ethos in the ’80s and ’90s to go where opportunity sprouted.

From Los Angeles Times