as in abnormal
departing from some accepted standard of what is normal
some studies show that many violent criminals begin exhibiting deviant behavior in early childhood
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as in maverick
a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs
branded as social deviants by a society that did not value self-expression
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Christopher R. Browning, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
The Florida bill’s opponents are worried about a world in which teachers have no meaningful way to discuss the real world inhabited by their students, which risks leaving students with the impression that non-straight or non-gender-conforming individuals are somehow deviant.
—Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022
For Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024
How Medieval Arabic Literature Viewed Lesbians As far back as the ninth century, doctors and poets wrote about women who loved women without calling them deviants.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
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Adjective
Jähner does not comment on no one seeming to have drawn the lesson that the anti-Semitic stereotype of dishonest and deviant economic behavior that Germans had long identified as a Jewish racial characteristic had turned out to be situationally, not racially, caused.
—Christopher R. Browning, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
The Florida bill’s opponents are worried about a world in which teachers have no meaningful way to discuss the real world inhabited by their students, which risks leaving students with the impression that non-straight or non-gender-conforming individuals are somehow deviant.
—Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022
Noun
When Heather’s two mommies came to my school, there was nothing deviant about them.
—For Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024
How Medieval Arabic Literature Viewed Lesbians As far back as the ninth century, doctors and poets wrote about women who loved women without calling them deviants.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
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They can be used to manage and treat a myriad of gynecologic issues, such as abnormal uterine bleeding, and can be protective against conditions like uterine hyperplasia and endometrial cancer.Dominique Fluker, Essence, 28 Oct. 2024
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Fingers are used by medical professionals to, for example, take your pulse, to feel around for abnormal lumps in tissues under the skin, and they’re inserted into, well, dark, warm places for diagnostic purposes.New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2024
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The show pairs an aristocratic police detective and a maverick sergeant from a working class background.Max Goldbart, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
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Popular on Variety As for Harper herself, the rule-breaking maverick is homeward bound.Alison Herman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2024
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While some can be used across different hair textures, lengths, curl patterns, thicknesses, colors (natural and unnatural), and concerns, many are created with specific consumers and their needs in mind.Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 2 Nov. 2024
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Now Morisseau, who is half Haitian and half Black American, is exploring a new setting, that of urbane Port-au-Prince, some years after the 2010 earthquake, a natural disaster that brought to the fore, with devastating clarity, the unnatural cycles of exploitation that threaten to define Haiti.Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
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Designers traditionally present themselves in public as preening demigods or fussy, difficult eccentrics, but neither is the vibe that Porte Jacquemus gives off.Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
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Angela Lansbury built her career playing all kinds of eccentrics on stage and screen.Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Deviant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deviant. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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