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ethos

[ UK /ˈiːθə‍ʊz/ ]
[ US /ˈiθɑs/ ]
NOUN
  1. (anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era
    the Greek ethos

How To Use ethos In A Sentence

  • It does not occur to him that we have had half a century of this, and there is a good deal of disillusion with the whole concept of a ‘public sector’ with a higher, nobler ethos than the common herd.
  • He learned to recognize pneumonia, bronchiectasis, pleurisy, emphysema, pneumothorax, phthisis, and other lung diseases from the sounds he heard with his stethoscope.
  • For example, the discovery of auscultation and later the stethoscope made individual patient reports of symptoms less important than the physician's own collection of diagnostic signs.
  • But where normal graffiti is executed freehand and as a one-off, stencil graffiti combines the Pop Art ethos of multiples with an aesthetic that mimics the punchy signage favoured by authority.
  • That," said Sethos, with a fair imitation of his infuriating smile," is what comes of having a reputation for omniscience. LORD OF THE SILENT
  • And the key to its success is that Trilling takes what Aristotle called dianoia “thought,” which he defined as a lesser element of tragedy, and makes it indistinguishable from ethos, character. Archive 2009-07-01
  • How do you turn single-minded determination into team ethos?
  • My question: who the heck does or will set government policy w.r.t. healthcare if not those who actually, you know, know a stethoscope from a beer bong? More on the Democratic party’s War on Breasts. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
  • You're eating lunch in the cafeteria, wearing your scrubs, your high-tech stethoscope around your neck, a hemostat clipped onto you somewhere, tourniquets tied onto it. Excerpt: Never Change by Elizabeth Berg
  • How does he bring his indie ethos to something this gigantic? Times, Sunday Times
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