shibboleth
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“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent,” is a financial industry shibboleth most investors have learned through a great deal of pain.
From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025
This is the shibboleth that no fault must ever attach to the electorate.
From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025
That’s because, contrary to the shibboleth, the good isn’t the enemy of the great—it’s the loam of the great.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 9, 2023
Suppression became such a shibboleth that Congress in 1922 fobade the use of Sequoia National Park’s firefighting funds for “precautionary fires,” later known as prescribed or controlled burning.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2022
Her clothes were a kind of shibboleth to me; they signaled that she was not a gentile, and for a few hours I felt less alone.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Vocabulary lists containing shibboleth
Hidden Figures
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Mandela's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Address
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Educated
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