ethos
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Yet SpaceX's "fail fast, learn fast" ethos has helped it become the world's dominant launch services provider.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
She’s grinning because of course they fit — that was the ethos behind her design.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
She added: "Back in the day, Lloyd's ethos was to make banking easy. I think this is a reversal of that."
From BBC • May 14, 2026
A familiar ethos can be found at places like London’s It’s Bagels and Ghost Bagel in Lugano, Switzerland.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
The ethos of atomic physics—the relentless drive to find irreducible particles, universal mechanisms, and systematic explanations—would soon permeate biology and drive the discipline toward new methods and new questions.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Vocabulary lists containing ethos
The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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Introducing Rhetoric: Using the "Available Means" (Chapter 1)
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This Week in Words: June 4 - 8, 2018
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