social code
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He’s studied anxiety with the intensity of a scholar and now, as a director, he pairs that persona with a blunt oversharer who smashes every social code.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
With bugs, we’ve developed a sort of social code around which to kill and which to save.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2022
But with each passing decade, his vision of a rigidly enforced social code and the dangers of a mob mentality have come to seem more and more prescient.
From Fox News ● Mar. 20, 2020
In moments like these, it’s easy — too easy — to dismiss Hannah for, among other infractions of the social code, egocentrism run amok.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2014
Mr. Langhope was always careful to temper his explanations with an "as you know": he would have thought it ill-bred to omit this parenthesis in elucidating the social code to his son-in-law.
From The Fruit of the Tree by Alonzo Kimball
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