societal
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In an economy with limited well-paying jobs, many have rejected societal pressures to overwork or have stopped working completely.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
Instead, they reflect a complex interaction between individual characteristics, such as a tendency to mind-wander, interest in dreams, and sleep quality, and external influences, including major societal events like the COVID-19 pandemic.
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
Arbitration’s takeover of the traditional functions of courts, as laid out by Ballou, has broader societal implications as well.
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2026
These are societal problems that officers find themselves trying to contain on the front line.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026
These are paranoid delusions on a societal scale, explainable in part by our need for enemies, and in part by our memory of what things used to be like.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing societal
"Laws are not the only way to boost immunization”: an editorial from Nature
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“For the Herd’s Sake, Vaccinate" by Steven L. Weinreb
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