well-ordered
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At that rate, forming a single well-ordered layer of dolomite could take up to 10 million years.
From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026
It should be possible—and it is essential to a well-ordered society—to call out morally reprehensible behavior by your own side as well as by your opponents.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
Local resident Reka told me she couldn't understand how an attack like this could have happened in her well-ordered city.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2025
Three years later, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture whisked them off to a quaint fictional village in the west of England, zigzagging through arable fields and well-ordered front gardens.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024
She shows her power where there is no well-ordered virtue to resist her, and therefore turns her impetus towards where she knows no dikes and dams have been constructed to hold her in.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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