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
The world is endlessly fascinating, and getting more so in this era of rapid change in technology, cultural mores, and politics.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025
What’s amazing about “Brazil,” even after 40 years, is how prophetic it was about the manipulation of public mores and knowledge by a totalitarian regime.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025
These games are creative and meaningful social artifacts embedded with children’s culture, history, social mores, attitudes, and relationships.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
