modus vivendi
Example Sentences
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Mr. Sharabi and his fellow hostages develop a modus vivendi with their captors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
Mr Deibert says that the gangs appear to have found a "modus vivendi" while they try to tear down the pillars of the state.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
“Not about every little issue in the relationship, but rather what are our principles? And can we somehow find a modus vivendi, not agreement, but some sort of mutual understanding?” he said.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
Despite the desperation, deprivation and decreasing opportunities, some Kabulis have tried to preserve some vestige of their pre-Islamic Emirate existence and forge some kind of modus vivendi with the Taliban.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2022
Being comparatively at leisure after the pacification with France, he resolved to turn his whole attention to the arrangement of a new modus vivendi with the church.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
