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motto

[mot-oh] / ˈmɒt oʊ /


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“The department is in free fall. My motto is ‘Help is on the way,’” Villanueva said, prompting nods of affirmation from the three dozen or so professionals in attendance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Along with the International Olympic Committee’s official motto of “Faster, Higher, Stronger — Together,” each organizing committee uses a slogan to share its vision for the Games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The UFW was among those paying tribute to Huerta, who reportedly died of cancer, on Wednesday, saying in a statement posted to social media that she had coined its motto - "Si Se Puede!"

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Mike is Westish’s biggest booster—he coined the school motto, “We Are One”—so it’s a problem that Pella feels antsy at the thought of settling permanently in this pokey college town.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

If she had to pick a personal motto, it would be “Bring it!”

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

The team writing the mottoes for next year’s batch of Sweethearts has already developed a new theme aimed at that demographic sweet spot.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

He has outfitted it with solar panels and inscribed it with positive mottoes, including “Always Be Compassion” scrawled across the hood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2022

We’ve broken quietude in new ways, re-examined what we thought we knew, carried phrases as mottoes, or leverage.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

She said it when I applied to every college I had seen mentioned in books—the ones with demure colors, Latin mottoes, things called quads.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019

It hovered over her head, like the golden mottoes over the saints, of the darker ages.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

"Never forget, never forgive - this is one of the mottos that reminds us who we are, what we have been through, and how resilient we Bosnians are," says Dokic.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Even when the season felt like a shadow of what it once was, her voice — her methods, her mottos, her insistence that anyone could learn — persisted.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2025

One of Sheinbaum’s mottos: “Collaboration, coordination, without subordination. ... Sovereignty is not negotiable.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025

“In adopting their mottos, symbols, and ethos on the field of friendly strife, we seek to emulate their application of these characteristics to defeat our rivals,” the school said.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

Certificates of excellence had been hung on the stairwell wall, alongside mottos that my father had found important enough to frame.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson


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