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 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 But the Met’s desperation for conventionality — read accessibility — never quite recedes. Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2026 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
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Noun
  • Despite the years of Sturm und Drang about pandemic origins, and the wholesale adoption of the lab-leak theory by the party that controls both Congress and the White House, a shaky status quo still persists in biosafety.
    Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
  • But that document alone can’t obviate constitutional provisions a future government might invoke to return to an earlier status quo that’s more favorable to Moscow (and by extension Beijing), and adversarial to everyone else.
    Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Noun
  • Sometimes there’s no need to look any further than normality.
    TIME, Time, 26 June 2026
  • Oil prices fell to their lowest level since the US-Israel war with Iran, as growing signs of a tentative return to normality through the Strait of Hormuz soothed markets.
    Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Despite the celebrity glitz surrounding their relationship, Kelce got candid on the normalcy of his romance with Swift in a September 2025 interview with GQ.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 8 July 2026
  • Following the fall of Poland in September 1939, and before Germany invaded Denmark and Norway in April 1940, the absence of sustained military operations created the illusion of normalcy.
    Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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“Conventionality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conventionality. Accessed 10 Jul. 2026.

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