motto
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“Coordination, not subordination,” Sheinbaum said Friday, reiterating a motto emphasizing that Mexico will not relinquish its sovereignty in response to U.S. pressure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Comic Con, on the other hand, was the embodiment of the Kentucky motto.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
"The Tennessee license plate used to have a sign on it, or a little motto that said, 'Follow me to Tennessee,'" Bessent said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Their motto throughout this tournament has been 'Mekameleen', which means 'we'll keep going'.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Their motto was supposed to be ‘Keep on your toes and smile.’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
The team writing the mottoes for next year’s batch of Sweethearts has already developed a new theme aimed at that demographic sweet spot.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
There he prints by letterpress, in two colors, greeting cards that combine old etchings and engravings with famous mottoes and sayings.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
Some call themselves “surfragettes,” and live by mottoes such as “Happiness comes in waves” and “All we need is vitamin sea.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2019
She said it when I applied to every college I had seen mentioned in books—the ones with demure colors, Latin mottoes, things called quads.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
The mantelpiece held, in brave confusion, photographs, greeting cards, flowered mottoes, two silver candlesticks that held no candles, and a green metal serpent, poised to strike.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
"Never forget, never forgive - this is one of the mottos that reminds us who we are, what we have been through, and how resilient we Bosnians are," says Dokic.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Even when the season felt like a shadow of what it once was, her voice — her methods, her mottos, her insistence that anyone could learn — persisted.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2025
Other coaches could lose their players through meandering mottos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
“In adopting their mottos, symbols, and ethos on the field of friendly strife, we seek to emulate their application of these characteristics to defeat our rivals,” the school said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
One of Hitler’s mottos was that the German woman does not smoke, does not drink, and does not paint herself with makeup.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Vocabulary lists containing motto
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling
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