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society

[suh-sahy-i-tee] / səˈsaɪ ɪ ti /




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“The hippos are mimetic. It’s little bit of a reflection of society with dark, absurdist humor,” said Dedo Vabo’s Derek Doublin.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

Kevin said people often suffered from "plant blindness" where the benefits to the environment, and society itself, are overlooked.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

Many experts describe today's environment as an "obesogenic society," where everyday conditions make it harder to maintain healthy habits and easier to gain weight.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2026

In its primordial form, liberalism was a political belief that the building block of society is the individual—an idea tethered loosely to the Christian notion that every single human being contains a divine spark.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Jefferson's version of a classless American society was therefore a pipe dream, because the source of the problem was not European feudalism but human nature itself.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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