Examples of telos in a Sentence
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Assimilation rather than revolution is the telos toward which Secret City strives.
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Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 8 June 2022
Setting and pursuing performance goals supplies the telos of the sport, but success and failure are fleeting moments — drops in the bucket of the overall experience.
—Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2021
Techniques exist to be perfected; Curry has pushed the three toward its telos.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2021
His telos—his endgame—is the destabilization, the overcoming, of the whole Western order.
—vanityfair.com, 10 Jan. 2017
Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 8 June 2022
Setting and pursuing performance goals supplies the telos of the sport, but success and failure are fleeting moments — drops in the bucket of the overall experience.
—Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2021
Techniques exist to be perfected; Curry has pushed the three toward its telos.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2021
His telos—his endgame—is the destabilization, the overcoming, of the whole Western order.
—vanityfair.com, 10 Jan. 2017
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“Telos.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telos. Accessed 7 Sep. 2024.
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