mores
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The Permian Basin, which accounts for around half of U.S. production and holds billions more barrels underground, would be the logical place for oil companies to drill mores.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
Their ability to enact change depended on their willingness to defy current custom and mores.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
“The Ten Year Affair” handles these twists with unfailing intelligence, capturing the sincere but confusingly improvised mores of marriage today.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Social mores are changing, with childlessness no longer viewed as unusual or undesirable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025
Most times, many tribal women questioned her sanity in daring to question well-established mores.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
Vocabulary lists containing mores
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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