mores
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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
Emails reveal the wealthy taking proxy measures of one another’s yachts and villas, showboating their riches in ways that make Tom Wolfe’s “Bonfire of the Vanities” look like a genteel glimpse into society mores.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
Language is an ideal prism through which a culture expresses its underlying mores.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Boys slightly older were moving on to girls and dating and fitting in with the mores and restrictions of being in their mid teens, which meant, among other things, avoiding associations with younger boys.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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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