folklifes

variants or folklives
plural of folklife

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Noun
  • What sets Birmingham apart, though, is its ability to innovate without severing ties to those traditions.
    Rai Mincey, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Bipartisan traditions in appropriations could provide a buffer.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Rojas moves from Colombian history to mythologies, from family stories to her own life.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Drawing inspiration from Norse and other mythologies, the trees of Middle-earth in the Lord of the Rings series are sacred beings, whose treatment stands as a moral litmus test.
    Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Partnerships like this help to dispel myths and skepticism surrounding LiDAR’s versatility.
    Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Forget the old myths about dressing up or sweet-talking your way to the front.
    Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Her mother, an enslaved woman whose name is lost to history, had been a storyteller, too, regaling the girl with folktales on the Maryland plantation where she was born in the mid-nineteenth century.
    April White, JSTOR Daily, 15 Sep. 2025
  • From causing supernatural events to creating hysteria, our orbiting nightlight has always had legends and folktales written about it.
    Taylor Grothe, Parents, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Folklifes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/folklifes. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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