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motto

[mot-oh] / ˈmɒt oʊ /


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The word "process" has been used so many times by the Scotland head coach and his players in recent days it's probably the new team motto.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

I tried to get the Music Center to make that the motto of the hall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

If all myths, including superhero stories, are meant to be allegories, then think of this episode as an expansion of a motto articulated in a 2013 episode of “Scandal.”

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

The city of Hampton changed its official seal to depict a crab holding a Mercury capsule in its claw, adopting the motto E Praeteritis Futura: Out of the past, the future.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

Within the fury, he emphasized Schumann’s repetitive mottoes as obsessive shards that recurred like fenceposts in a nightmare landscape.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 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

That’s where her mottos come in — short, memorable phrases that condensed technique into a moment you could carry from the screen to your own kitchen.

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

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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