p's and q's

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Plural Noun
  • 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 1 May. 2025.

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