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
  • Ocasio-Cortez never named Stevens, but implicitly criticized her as a status quo candidate.
    Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 19 July 2026
Noun
  • By the time the world returned to relative normality, her priorities had shifted.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026
  • But coming out of a pandemic that had robbed players of normality, a few days extra at the best tournaments felt doable, given the financial payoff.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 25 July 2026
Noun
  • The return to a golden age of normalcy was one of the most powerful pandemic-era fantasies.
    Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026
  • 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

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“Conventionality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conventionality. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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