lore
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However, much of the Caballero family’s performance lore begins with Isabel’s son, 82-year-old Rubén: an apparatus connoisseur well-versed in the high wire, trapeze and hand balancing.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
The area based on Bargatze’s local lore would include coasters and a “Donkey Dive” ride inspired by one of his jokes.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
The parrots, lore tells us, brought by missionaries, stayed even after the city became what it is now.
From Salon • May 9, 2026
It was another reminder that Altman’s lore is still being written.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
For it is said in old lore: The hands of the king are the hands of a healer.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing lore
Vocabulary from an excerpt from "Confessions of a 30-Year-Old Gamer," by Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates
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