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well-ordered

[wel-awr-derd] / ˈwɛlˈɔr dərd /




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It should be possible—and it is essential to a well-ordered society—to call out morally reprehensible behavior by your own side as well as by your opponents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Local resident Reka told me she couldn't understand how an attack like this could have happened in her well-ordered city.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2025

These ingredients assemble themselves into a well-ordered structure consisting of semiconductor metal oxide molecules wrapped in graphene sheets.

From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024

Three years later, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture whisked them off to a quaint fictional village in the west of England, zigzagging through arable fields and well-ordered front gardens.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024

It was he who first used the word Cosmos to denote a well-ordered and harmonious universe, a world amenable to human understanding.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan