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Traduzioni di shibboleth nel dizionario inglese»italiano

shibboleth [ingl brit ˈʃɪbəlɛθ, ingl am ˈʃɪbələθ] SOST

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Esempi monolingue (non verificati dalla Redazione di PONS)

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On the other hand, for an untrained speaker, a word or phrase can often be something of a tongue-twister or a shibboleth.

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He has waged an unprecedented war against whistleblowers, the protection of which was once a liberal shibboleth.

www.salon.com

Together they made up the first 12 digits of pi -- a geek shibboleth.

www.wired.com

But these were mere shibboleths devoid of systematic action.

opinion.inquirer.net

There is certainly good reason to teach the rules of grammar, but make them the real rules -- not arbitrary shibboleths; unsplit infinitives, none-is-always-singular.

blogs.telegraph.co.uk

The dialects work as a certain shibboleth; minor accent differences help speakers define others' place of origin.

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We wanted to challenge our preconceptions, even those shibboleths of the environment movement because people in it don't think enough about it themselves.

www.crikey.com.au

The genius rejected the shibboleths of his era, and saw the future more clearly than the good liberal in tune with his times.

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His name today is almost a shibboleth for a certain kind of reader, a symbol of faith, of conversion to his particular genius.

www.macleans.ca

Descriptivists, according to this scheme, believe that norms of correctness are arbitrary shibboleths of the ruling class, designed to keep the masses in their place.

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