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Recent Examples of conventionality
Even in flirting with conventionality, Rahmani comes out on top.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conventionality
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Raman, 44, has attempted to position herself as Bass’ most serious ideological challenger from the left, focusing heavily on housing affordability, tenant protections and criticism of the city’s political status quo.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
29 May 2026
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Opinions about baseball’s status quo fall along party lines.—
Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
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But normality is gauged by behavior, an individual’s social life.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
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And, in the period since, a sense of normality has returned.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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The group kept going, relocating to North Carolina and shedding the Eternal Values name in favor of a construction company called the Lotus Group—a thin veneer of normalcy stretched over the same dynamics.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
1 June 2026
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Some parents said the sudden shift back to normalcy was difficult to adjust to after the days of evacuations, especially for families staying as far away as Palm Springs.—
Nathaniel Percy,
Oc Register,
26 May 2026
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“Conventionality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conventionality. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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