shibboleth
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“Don’t fight the Fed” is a financial market shibboleth most investors learn at a very early stage in their career.
From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025
This is the shibboleth that no fault must ever attach to the electorate.
From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025
That’s because, contrary to the shibboleth, the good isn’t the enemy of the great—it’s the loam of the great.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 9, 2023
Precisely because it’s off-limits to outsiders, it can function as a shibboleth among certain Black speakers, who use it more or less interchangeably with “guy” or “brother.”
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022
History is a cumulative record of success and failure, and the pretense that it can be something other than that is a peculiar shibboleth of historical writing over the last fifty years.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Hidden Figures
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Mandela's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Address
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