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Then there’s just the societal polarization that has intensified in the past decade and has more people on edge and coiled to lash out.
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Thomas Black, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
Policymakers who want to avoid freedom-limiting measures in boosting fertility rates must develop a framework that affirms both individual autonomy and the societal value of family life.
—Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Medicine has understood it for some time now, but what crept in was social commentary, a societal bias that questions whether pleasure matters for women.
—Alice Park, Time, 16 Dec. 2025
In a podcast interview with Patrick Bet-David, Rousseau – who readily brings up the racial and societal theories of philosophers stretching back centuries – was asked his view on Adolf Hitler.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
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Thomas Black, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
Policymakers who want to avoid freedom-limiting measures in boosting fertility rates must develop a framework that affirms both individual autonomy and the societal value of family life.
—Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Medicine has understood it for some time now, but what crept in was social commentary, a societal bias that questions whether pleasure matters for women.
—Alice Park, Time, 16 Dec. 2025
In a podcast interview with Patrick Bet-David, Rousseau – who readily brings up the racial and societal theories of philosophers stretching back centuries – was asked his view on Adolf Hitler.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
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“Societal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/societal. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.
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