shibboleth in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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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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As an activist-filmmaker, he has been a propagandist for the values of the ultra-liberal state and its shibboleths throughout his career.
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He attacked many of the shibboleths of the nationalist school, such as the idealisation of the convicts, bushrangers and pioneers.
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This is why teachers, or at least their unions, have enjoyed success getting the public to accept this shibboleth.
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This could then be used as an effective shibboleth.
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The name became a shibboleth when sectarian tensions increased.
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That's when the state turned into a secular theocracy, worshipping shibboleths of its own making as though they were divine revelations.
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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.
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But these were mere shibboleths devoid of systematic action.
opinion.inquirer.net
Together they made up the first 12 digits of pi -- a geek shibboleth.
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