mores
Example Sentences
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Their ability to enact change depended on their willingness to defy current custom and mores.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
European and American mores on speech are on a collision course.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
Greenland’s social environment is also different from Denmark’s — its Indigenous population, which has its own social mores, is larger as a proportion of the population, and residents are concentrated in the giant island’s southwest.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025
Though “Seven Veils” isn’t as undeniable and scathing as something like “Tár,” it’s a compelling study of the shifting belief about how great art is made, upended by contemporary mores.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2025
These games are creative and meaningful social artifacts embedded with children’s culture, history, social mores, attitudes, and relationships.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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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