mores
Example Sentences
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Their ability to enact change depended on their willingness to defy current custom and mores.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
Wind-swept Catherine is as constrained by societal mores as geographic ones.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
Ms. Doucet populates the book with sympathetic characters—the “real cement and steel of the Inter-Con”—conscientious and kind Afghans who keep the hotel going as regimes collapse, rulers change, mores alter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
Though “Seven Veils” isn’t as undeniable and scathing as something like “Tár,” it’s a compelling study of the shifting belief about how great art is made, upended by contemporary mores.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2025
Along the way I encountered values that I accepted, primarily those that reinforced my early religious and community mores.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
Vocabulary lists containing mores
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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