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watchword

noun as in motto

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Now I’ve endeavored to be like an old dog who can learn new tricks, so humility has been the watchword for my second decade of marriage.

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“Unpredictability” will be a predictable weather watchword throughout all of our lifetimes.

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After years of argument and dispute about the meaning of gender, the watchword of Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling has to be clarity.

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The limits of these "vital interests" have always been left deliberately vague – ambiguity and credibility being the two watchwords of nuclear deterrence.

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Memory was the watchword of this day, marked around the world as International Holocaust Memorial Day.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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