noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
social
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Immigration has a lot to do with this, but so do the social mores of a state that is still 60% Mormon.
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It is not just life that breaks down, but social structures and mores , the whole container of civilization.
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They are actually shifting social mores of what is considered beautiful.
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Each decade has seen its style defined and often, its social mores challenged, through fashion.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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middle-class mores
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Certainly the area studies part of the training program had not prepared them for the mores of the nursing profession in Tanganyika.
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Expectations reshaped by mores are no longer so easily affronted.
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Immigration has a lot to do with this, but so do the social mores of a state that is still 60% Mormon.
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It is not just life that breaks down, but social structures and mores , the whole container of civilization.
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It will be they who commit the most crime, it will be they who will stick two fingers up to conventional mores .
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Perhaps more serious was the failure to understand, or accept, bureaucratic mores which were at the centre of the system.
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They stood for the preservation of the mores and folkways that had guided their forebears for generations.