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shibboleth
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As he signs reams of left-leaning legislation on liberal shibboleths like the minimum wage and global warming, the Running Man seems to be running scared.
Puns and literary references are Mark Schreiber's shibboleths.
Aoyagi locates similarities between idols and, for example, Shinto rituals and myths, Japanese gardening techniques, the 47 loyal ronin, Noh and kabuki--not to mention Watsuji Tetsuro's notion of aidagara (in-betweenness), Doi Takeo's theory of amae (indulgence) and all the other shibboleths.
 
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