mores
Example Sentences
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Their ability to enact change depended on their willingness to defy current custom and mores.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
Wind-swept Catherine is as constrained by societal mores as geographic ones.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
Social mores are changing, with childlessness no longer viewed as unusual or undesirable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025
Greenland’s social environment is also different from Denmark’s — its Indigenous population, which has its own social mores, is larger as a proportion of the population, and residents are concentrated in the giant island’s southwest.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025
But to a generation of writers after Wharton that structure—the lives and mores of the rich, the wellborn, and the climbers—proved endlessly diverting.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
Vocabulary lists containing mores
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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