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goldilocks
adjective
(usually initial capital letter) not being extreme or not varying drastically between extremes, especially between hot and cold: a Goldilocks economy that is neither overheated nor too cold to cause arecession; a goldilocks planet such as Earth.
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Little new or unknown can be said about Goldilocks, but in the late 1980s astronomers began using the phrases Goldilocks planet or Goldilocks zone for planets in our solar system exoplanets that are not too hot, not too cold for supporting life (as we know it on earth).
how is goldilocks used?
For future generations to realize the search for distant 鈥�Goldilocks planets,鈥� this generation must work harder to protect our own.
Short-story collections prove to be a solution to folks who are 鈥渢oo busy to read鈥� or are trying to find a way to break up a monotonous commute becoming the 鈥渏ust right鈥� in a Goldilocks situation.
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The English adjective hyetal is very uncommon, used only in meteorology. The Greek noun 丑测别迟蠈蝉 means 鈥渞ain鈥�; the noun 丑测别迟铆补 means 鈥渞ainy weather鈥�; both nouns derive from the verb 丑媒别颈苍 鈥渢o rain.鈥� In English and other languages (German, for example), verbs of weather and natural phenomena are impersonal (e.g., it is raining, es regnet; it is snowing, es schneit). In Greek, however, such verbs are personal, Zeus or another god being understood as the subject if not explicitly named; thus 丑媒别颈 means to a Greek not 鈥渋t is raining,鈥� but 鈥淶eus is raining,鈥� and 苍别铆辫丑别颈 鈥淶eus is snowing.鈥� Hyetal entered English in the 19th century.
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What grand cause has operated to disturb the ordinary rate of hyetal precipitation … is a question to be studied by climatologists.
Hyetal regions, mean annual cloudiness, co-tidal lines, cyclonic rotations, and progressive low pressure systems are not charming in themselves.
mores
plural noun
Sociology. folkways of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group.
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The Latin noun 尘艒谤脓蝉 is the plural of 尘艒蝉 鈥渃ustom, habit, usage, wont.鈥� The Latin noun, whether singular or plural, has a wider range of usage than English mores has. 惭艒蝉 may be good, bad, or indifferent: in Cicero鈥檚 usage the phrase 尘艒蝉 m膩j艒rum 鈥渃ustom of our ancestors鈥� is roughly equivalent to 鈥渃onstitution鈥�; 尘艒蝉 sinister means 鈥減erverted custom,” literally 鈥渓eft-handed鈥�; and Horace used to walk along the Via Sacra as was his habit (尘艒蝉). Mores entered English in the late 19th century.
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… as Lincoln now feared, with the passing of this noble generation, 鈥渋f the laws be continually despised and disregarded, if their rights to be secure in their persons and property, are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob, the alienation of their affections from the Government is the natural consequence.鈥� To fortify against this, Lincoln essentially proposed that the national mores of America鈥攖aught in every classroom, preached in every church, proclaimed in every legislative hall鈥攎ust revolve around 鈥渞everence鈥� to the laws …
… the artist has always considered himself beyond the mores of the community in which he lived.