conventionality

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Recent Examples of conventionality The conventionality that Gunn resorts to includes a subplot with the Green Lantern League, a jokey crew of XYZ-men knock-offs. — Armond White, National Review, 11 July 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for conventionality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conventionality
Noun
  • The Gilded Age would generally prefer that nothing disrupt the basic contours of its serene status quo, where ladies in hats sit in drawing rooms and deliver smiling rebukes of one another’s decor.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
  • But any agreement that specifies which uses of AI are taboo would be better than a status quo that prohibits none.
    — NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Banda’s first impulse was to maintain normality, stability, for the children.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Weiss has her own particular vision of American and international normality.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Maintaining a sense of normalcy and a human connection with her constituents has become increasingly difficult as opponents have dialed up their ire—most recently, flocking to Collins’s Maine office to loudly protest July’s ICE shooting.
    — Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Banda’s first impulse was to maintain normalcy, stability, for the children.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026

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“Conventionality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conventionality. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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