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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

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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. Armando Iannucci:

   I re-read 'David Copperfield' about 10 or so years ago and it just felt so cinematic and funny and experimental. It felt very modern, it also speaks of these sort of contemporary issues as well and I just want to get that life and that humor and approach it maybe as if there were no rules as to how you make a costume drama.

2. Sabrina Singh:

   The campaign was explicitly clear that these posts were ads and sponsored content, we went above and beyond to follow Instagram's rules and the text of the post clearly shows these are the campaign's paid ads.

3. Viktor Orban:

   Hungary cannot ignore Schengen rules in its procedures, migrants must cooperate with Hungarian authorities, with the German authorities and if Germany wants to admit Syrians, it should issue permission for them to go into Germany.

4. Ambuj Sharma:

   We have written to the ARAI to find out whether Volkswagen is selling the same models in India that have been found violating U.S. rules, aRAI has been asked to submit its report within a week.

5. Charles Krauthammer:

   The Chinese are extremely sensitive about these nuances in diplomacy, they've been at it for four thousand years, and the rules were laid down by Kissinger and Nixon when they made the opening, and it was that we'd be allies of Taiwan, but we would have to observe certain rules… that Taiwan is part of China.

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