ethos
Example Sentences
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Yet SpaceX's "fail fast, learn fast" ethos has helped it become the world's dominant launch services provider.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
ERL’s new Made in California collection embodies the brand’s ethos to capture the contradictions that make California what it is.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
She added: "Back in the day, Lloyd's ethos was to make banking easy. I think this is a reversal of that."
From BBC • May 14, 2026
My hardscrabble-farm-raised parents projected a Depression-era ethos that deemed it extravagant to pay someone for tasks you knew how to do—a moral failing, almost.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
Perhaps that he did not always seem to judge his audience right—a failure of ethos.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Vocabulary lists containing ethos
The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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Introducing Rhetoric: Using the "Available Means" (Chapter 1)
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This Week in Words: June 4 - 8, 2018
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