lore
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To be fair to Lord Reid, he made those distinctions at the time but his caveats have been lost in Whitehall lore.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
The island fortress entered American cultural lore after a 1962 escape by three inmates, which became an inspiration for the film "Escape from Alcatraz" starring Clint Eastwood.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Rather than shun the growing underground of youthful hackers, he had been attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club, where young Altair and Commodore users met to trade their tiny software programs and swap lore.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
The lore of La Mer goes back to its founding scientist, Max Huber.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
Thinking all the time was too much even for Francis, and often when he was stumped by his equations he used to pump my reservoir of phage lore.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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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