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1. Rules

   Rules is the debut novel by author Cynthia Lord. Released by Scholastic, Inc. in 2006, it was a Newbery Honor book in 2007. It is also a Sunshine State Young Readers book for 2008–2009 and won the Schneider Family Book Award.

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1. rules

   Plural form of the word rule.

   There is a set of rules for our conduct at school which we respect.

   Submitted by MaryC on November 29, 2015  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'rules' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #937

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'rules' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1537

Anagrams for rules »

1. luser

2. lures

How to pronounce rules?

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   Alex

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   Daniel

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   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rules in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rules in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of rules in a Sentence

1. Fayez Seraj:

   If the international community provides assistance I do not think the Libyans would reject that, but within the rules and standards, and according to what Libyans want, direct intervention is unacceptable, and we have sent that message clearly.

2. Dan Ryan:

   This is a legislative win for the banks, but the biggest deregulatory bang for the buck is changing the referees, not the rules, i don't see any more financial services bills passing the Senate this year.

3. Laura Orsi:

   There are so many young girls, parents, and teachers who feel inspired, a lot of my peers are shocked about how far this has all gone, but theyre excited. My school administrators, although they still have to enforce the rules, are on board, OK with us protesting, and just want us to have an educational environment we are safe and happy in.

4. Mathias Cormann:

   But we are going to have a mass gathering of tens of thousands of people in complete breach of the rules that apply to everyone else, it is absolutely reckless and irresponsible.

5. Keith Pogson:

   There are a number of capital rules that are domicile-specific, especially the use of capital models for things like credit risk and market risk, these have to be approved by the home regulator, and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority hasn't been as generous in approving those internal models in the past as the UK regulator.

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