ethos
Example Sentences
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Here, punk bands truly espoused the music’s DIY ethos, and were more culturally diverse.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
"This is a way to highlight the history of Cumberland and bring it into a sustainable-future, clean-energy ethos," she says.
From Science Daily • May 6, 2026
Founded in 2012, its ethos is to provide opportunities to local disadvantaged people.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
My hardscrabble-farm-raised parents projected a Depression-era ethos that deemed it extravagant to pay someone for tasks you knew how to do—a moral failing, almost.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
Pietism laid great store by helping congregations find God themselves, through personal acquaintance and knowledge of the scriptures, through humility, non-confrontation and piety, through an ethos of hard work, and through education.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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