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Recent Examples of conventionality
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.
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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
This violence was societal rather than personal, for his parents were people of strict conventionality and religion.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
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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
This violence was societal rather than personal, for his parents were people of strict conventionality and religion.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conventionality
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The positives about Lurie, who ousted former Mayor London Breed in late 2024, were propelled by a coalition of voters unhappy with his city’s previous status quo.—
Thomas D. Elias,
Oc Register,
8 Jan. 2026
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Our energy unaffordability crisis is the product of the fossil-fuel status quo and an aging energy infrastructure.—
Anshul Gupta,
New York Daily News,
7 Jan. 2026
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The wrinkle in this case is that many remember 2016 both as a hellish tragedy and the last gasp of anything like normality.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
18 Jan. 2026
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There have been no signs of protests for days in Tehran, where shopping and street life have returned to outward normality, though a week-old internet blackout continued.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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That sense of normalcy lowered suspicion.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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As Venezuelans attempt to regain a semblance of normalcy after the US capture of President Nicolás Maduro, authorities in the country are cracking down on any show of support to the beleaguered leader’s removal.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Conventionality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conventionality. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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