as in method
formal
a usual way of doing something
the thief's modus operandi
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How does a roll call of modern autocrats, and wannabe autocrats, like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, India’s Narendra Modi, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro implement this modus operandi for the latest model of autocracy?
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Cecilia Menjívar, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2024
The funds’ modus operandi is quite familiar by now: wait for a developing country to hit the skids, move in and buy the country’s debt at a bargain basement price, and then to go to court to sue for full repayment.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2016
After all, their modus operandi is to make everyone else feel inferior, often with the more aggressive stance of making everyone else feel compelled to cede every point to the smartest person.
—Matt Butcher, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
Implementing the idea means putting technology in place to calculate their new values, and the thinking behind the fresh modus operandi is obvious: Valencia, owned by billionaire Peter Lim, can make more money.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
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Cecilia Menjívar, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2024
The funds’ modus operandi is quite familiar by now: wait for a developing country to hit the skids, move in and buy the country’s debt at a bargain basement price, and then to go to court to sue for full repayment.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2016
After all, their modus operandi is to make everyone else feel inferior, often with the more aggressive stance of making everyone else feel compelled to cede every point to the smartest person.
—Matt Butcher, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
Implementing the idea means putting technology in place to calculate their new values, and the thinking behind the fresh modus operandi is obvious: Valencia, owned by billionaire Peter Lim, can make more money.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
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