mores
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As Moreno-Garcia reveals the claustrophobic customs and mores of a town whose name means “drowned pig,” disaster feels inevitable.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 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
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
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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