social code

Example Sentences

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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

It was an important rule in their social code to appear as strangers in-doors, although they would wait for each other outside, and compare lists.

From A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs by Hutton, Laurence