ethos
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This description encapsulates the real warrior ethos: Humble, quiet, just doing a job.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
Allbirds wasn’t just the unofficial footwear provider of Silicon Valley—its initial public offering in 2021 tapped into the tech sector’s ethos by giving the company’s founders disproportionate sway in how it would be run.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Whatever the team work on next, there's one unique element which will undoubtedly remain - their unusual, yet perhaps fitting, Graham Norton ethos.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Still, I found myself listening attentively to the warning Miller was issuing about buying into the salesman ethos.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
Perhaps that he did not always seem to judge his audience right—a failure of ethos.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Vocabulary lists containing ethos
The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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Introducing Rhetoric: Using the "Available Means" (Chapter 1)
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This Week in Words: June 4 - 8, 2018
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