lores

plural of lore
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as in mythologies
the body of customs, beliefs, stories, and sayings associated with a people, thing, or place set out to study the rich lore of the Cajun people of Louisiana before it all vanished

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Noun
  • Sometimes my collection of knowledges feels like rash splatters of matter floating with me.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • America has its own mythologies of masculine desire, and many of them are worse.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
  • His works are also challenging to date precisely, due in part to his displacement and transpacific migration, and the Spencer show reflects this by abandoning a chronological framework in favor of a thematic exploration of his own mythologies.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Reynarowych had been an adjunct lecturer at Borough of Manhattan Community College, teaching elementary algebra, arithmetic, and mathematics for health sciences until 2023, a college representative said.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 15 June 2026
  • Without intervention, a female fly could lay more than 3,000 eggs over a lifespan of two to four weeks, according to Lee Haines, associate research professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame.
    Ilena Peng, Fortune, 13 June 2026
Noun
  • The kallikantzaroi are a group of blind, black goblins who live underground during most of the year sawing at the world tree – a motif throughout various folklores that connects the heavens to the Earth.
    Carlie Procell, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Many wisdoms intrinsic to permaculture long predate the term—it cannot be understated how much stems from indigenous knowledge and was passed down from generations before, from these ancestral stewards who listened to, and trusted, the land.
    Catherine Habgood September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The book also includes little wisdoms from his three children with wife Camila Alves McConaughey; son Levi, 17 (who plays his onscreen son in The Lost Bus), daughter Vida, 15, and younger son Livingston, 12.
    Andrea Mandell, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Alongside Tibetan performers, who brought their own culture, traditions, and voices, the concerts would go on to draw more than 325,000 attendees, and reach millions more through television broadcasts, radio coverage, and early large-scale online streams.
    Michele Amabile Angermiller, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2026
  • The food is increasingly lavish and varied, and some new traditions have replaced old ones.
    Ani Duzdabanyan, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Players from Cape Verde who may not be well-known are now going to go down as legends for the squad from the island nation off Africa’s western coast.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 15 June 2026
  • Yet some of the world’s most significant scientific and medical sites have accumulated ghost stories, conspiracy theories, and paranormal legends of their own.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 June 2026
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“Lores.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lores. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.

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