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- noun Plural form of
moray .
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Examples
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It also includes interviews with some compelling figures, including Madeline Levine, whose book The Price of Privilege takes a much sharper look at cultural morays; when she is on the screen, you sit up and take notice.
Linda Flanagan: Race to Nowhere? Linda Flanagan 2011
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Especially ones that have to do with shifts in societal morays.
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He accused the conservative Rittelmeyer of more than liberal sexual morays of, quote, juggling multiple men, coldly playing matchmaker for one couple so she could seduce the man and hurt the woman.
Bluff The Listener 2010
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Personally, I am bewildered that (real) parents will permit a school (or any other outside group) to begin teaching sexual morays — which I think is guaranteed if they are teaching “safe sex”.
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Yet, both matters, social morays, were addressed by amendments.
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It also includes interviews with some compelling figures, including Madeline Levine, whose book The Price of Privilege takes a much sharper look at cultural morays; when she is on the screen, you sit up and take notice.
Linda Flanagan: Race to Nowhere? Linda Flanagan 2011
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Blackwell's call to arms in 2006 for civic involvement: "Whether or not we will choose to be thermometers that just take the temperature of our culture, or whether or not we will be thermostats to turn up the heat and define and shape and influence the morays of our culture."
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No matter who is elected, the nation cannot progress if the highest court in the land is populated with those whose interpretation of the very document they are sworn to defend is skewed by conservative religious social morays.
Charles Karel Bouley: Pro Prop. 8 Attorney Cooper: You Can't Destroy Bigotry By Erasing Tapes 2010
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In the pursuit of innovation, many "enlightened" companies try to follow what they believe are established morays and best practices.
Robert F. Brands: Do Your Innovation Emperor, Rules & Idea Management Help or Hinder the Process? Robert F. Brands 2010
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Blackwell's call to arms in 2006 for civic involvement: "Whether or not we will choose to be thermometers that just take the temperature of our culture, or whether or not we will be thermostats to turn up the heat and define and shape and influence the morays of our culture."
sionnach commented on the word morays
I'm guessing these are the kind of morays that entertain a lot - social morays, if you will.
March 20, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word morays
O tempura! O morays!
March 20, 2010
bilby commented on the word morays
It's an eel wind that, umm, blows nobody any cod.
March 20, 2010