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mores
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Lady Glenconner, who was born only six years after Queen Elizabeth, shares the late monarch’s generational and class-based manners and mores, which demanded the performance of reserve and restraint under the most trying of circumstances.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2023 -
So the fake animal heads collided with real animal rights and Jenner/Kardashian mores, and for a time the explosion swallowed the digisphere whole.—
Vanessa Friedman,
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2023
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“P's and q's.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/p%27s%20and%20q%27s. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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