motto
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"My motto the whole time was just 'give it your best and some more'".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
“Try to relax. We’re here to help” is this culture’s infuriating motto.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
As such, all eyes have been on Schwesig, a former national family minister whose motto has been the "Frau gegen Blau" -- the woman against blue, the AfD's signature colour.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Beyond that, Huntsinger falls back on the festival’s unofficial motto: “Underpromise, overdeliver.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
“What about a motto or a mission statement on the back too?”
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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
Within the fury, he emphasized Schumann’s repetitive mottoes as obsessive shards that recurred like fenceposts in a nightmare landscape.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2019
On display you’ll find mottoes for the 1917 Negro Silent Protest Parade and the almost-exactly-100-year-old manuscript for a speech delivered by W.E.B.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 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
That’s where her mottos come in — short, memorable phrases that condensed technique into a moment you could carry from the screen to your own kitchen.
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
Rings engraved with French chivalric mottos were fashionable between 1400 and 1500.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2023
Granddad is the sort of person who has mottos.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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