motto
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As such, all eyes have been on Schwesig, a former national family minister whose motto has been the "Frau gegen Blau" -- the woman against blue, the AfD's signature colour.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
When it seems like harmless fun, my motto is to let people enjoy it.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Among his first duties as monarch, he led an extraordinary cabinet meeting where he announced his royal title and adopted his father's motto "Everything for Norway".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
In response, the company adopted the motto “Production is the product” and settled on a capital-intensive approach to developing chips aimed at bringing them to market as fast as possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Then borrowing from the school’s motto, “Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve,” I added: “If you elect me I will go forth to serve all of you.”
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
One of my mottoes was “aliveness over prowess.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
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
There he prints by letterpress, in two colors, greeting cards that combine old etchings and engravings with famous mottoes and sayings.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
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
One of Bill Gates’s early mottoes for Microsoft, which he cofounded, was that the company’s goal was to give every individual “LAYF” — information at your fingertips.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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
Rings engraved with French chivalric mottos were fashionable between 1400 and 1500.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2023
One of his mottos: Don’t take no for an answer.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
Vocabulary lists containing motto
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling
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