conventionality

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Recent Examples of conventionality Even in flirting with conventionality, Rahmani comes out on top. Porochista Khakpour, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2025 Despite all the pastor’s conventionality and sanctimony, there are flames between them, but those flickers run fairly cool until a breaking point in which Manders at last makes explicit reference to them. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2025 Try to reach working-class voters by railing against corporate power, or dominate the suburban vote as the party of conventionality? Ross Barkan, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025 Created in 1983 in Milan by Franco Moschino, the namesake brand has always pushed boundaries, bringing to the scene a refreshing interpretation of society and culture and challenging conventionality though high-low fashion. Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for conventionality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conventionality
Noun
  • On their own, these results would indicate a climate in which voters seem largely hesitant to change the tax status quo in one way or another.
    Paxton Honerkamp, CNBC, 21 July 2026
  • None of this requires defending a status quo that overprescribes, or dismissing legitimate science about metabolism and environment.
    Sunny Patel, STAT, 17 July 2026
Noun
  • In Season 2, the Klatts are finally getting back to normality until Wanda is caught seemingly red-handed standing over a dead body.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 July 2026
  • Sometimes there’s no need to look any further than normality.
    TIME, Time, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • But the samurai genre already presupposes a fictitious otherworldly place, and everyday normalcy simply doesn’t exist there, Kurosawa said.
    ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026
  • Further, they will be carried by ships to other parts of the world when normalcy in maritime trade resumes.
    Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 July 2026

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“Conventionality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conventionality. Accessed 30 Jul. 2026.

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