mores
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“Room” shows how arduous it can be to assimilate the rules and mores of the free world after a lifetime of captivity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
While “Is God Is” makes no overt references to modern politics or social mores, Harris’ writing is in constant conversation with our uniquely infernal times.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
The Permian Basin, which accounts for around half of U.S. production and holds billions more barrels underground, would be the logical place for oil companies to drill mores.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
Wind-swept Catherine is as constrained by societal mores as geographic ones.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
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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