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
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
It’s the timeworn social code of the Old Boys’ network, in part.
From Slate • Dec. 21, 2018
Even as he restructured the Saudi economy, MBS moved in 2017 to liberalize parts of Saudi Arabia’s extremely conservative social code.
From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2018
The matrons of the South were especially proud of the unblemished correctitude of their social code, and Calhoun's wife put herself ostentatiously at the head of the movement.
From A History of the United States by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)