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mores as in:  social mores

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    Note to self: Look up the words progenitive, omnipotent, and mores.  (source)
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    From all accounts there are no more puritanical mores in the world than those enforced by the Communists in Russia, where women's fashions, for instance, are as prudent and all-covering as any American Baptist would desire.  (source)
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    In keeping with the therapeutic mores of the age, he decided to do his convalescing in Europe, where the scenery also would provide an opportunity for him to enrich his visual vocabulary.  (source)
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    They would need to learn English and how to fill out job applications, and they would have to acclimate themselves to the mores and expectations of the American workplace.  (source)
    mores = the conventions and values that are important to a group
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    Lieutenant Scheisskopf was so elated by his unexpected achievement that he gave his wife a sharp crack over the head with the pole when she tried to drag him into bed to celebrate by showing their contempt for the sexual mores of the lower middle classes in Western civilization.  (source)
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    They refuse to be repressed by society's mores or laws.  (source)
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    Jean Louise's gleanings of adult morals and mores to date were few, but enough: it was possible to have a baby without being married, she knew that.  (source)
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    In my eyes she was the unflinching, strong-armed proponent of white values, mores, and attitudes.  (source)
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    America unceasingly reinvents itself, and it must create language to express that reinvention—in our social mores, in science and technology, in religion, in politics, in the arts—and also to reflect our power and influence in the world.  (source)
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    In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.  (source)
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    In particular, the pattern of sexual mores-insofar as there had ever been a single pattern—had altered radically.  (source)
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    And yet, it was a matter of manners and mores.  (source)
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    I never appreciated what a high art the fan dance can be until the first time I watched a French girl get out of her clothes and into her bikini in plain sight of citizens, tourists, gendarmes, dogs—and me—all without quite violating the lenient French mores concerning "indecent exposure."  (source)
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    There are campfires and s'mores and long walks through the woods.  (source)
    s'mores = marshmallows and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker
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    A little later, Daddy has to go in to the hospital, and Kitty goes over to our neighbor's house because they're making s'mores in the fireplace, so it's just Josh and me cleaning up.  (source)
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    In a moment, I promise we'll get to the s'mores, but first—.  (source)
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    For tonight, hamburgers, baked beans, s'mores.  (source)
    s'mores = marshmallows and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker
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    ROPER My family may not be at the palace, sir, but in the City MORE The Ropers were advocates when the Mores were selling pewter; there's nothing wrong with your family.  (source)
    Mores = a family with the last name, More
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    If the kids don't get their s'mores, I'll never hear the end of it.  (source)
    s'mores = marshmallows and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker
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    We'll never see another like Her, mores the pity!  (source)
    mores = more is
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    After life skills, I stop in the bathroom, and spend the three minutes before bell primping in front of the mirror, ignoring the s'mores chattering on either side of me, and trying hard not to focus on the fact that I'll come face-to-face with Mr. Daimler in less than five minutes.  (source)
    s'mores = a word for sophomores in this novel.
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    Pots, pans, knives, sisors, lawn mores, Fixed.  (source)
    mores = intentional misspelling of lawnmowers
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    "S'mores," I cooed, mashing a graham cracker on top of the chocolate-and-marshmallow sandwich I had balanced on my knee.  (source)
    S'mores = marshmallows and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker
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    Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation—emollit mores—you understand a little Latin now.  (source)
    mores = use in a Latin phrase that means "softens customs" or "weakens morals"
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    After Mom and Dad put them to bed, Jacob woke Tyler up to make s'mores.  (source)
    s'mores = marshmallows and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker
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    And mores the pity!  (source)
    mores = more is
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