arbitrary standard
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His hair was good because it was his hair; it was a Black man’s hair, and its worth didn’t rest on some arbitrary standard dictated by people who didn’t value him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2022
It was as if the landscape itself had dysmorphia, altering its physical appearance to fit an arbitrary standard that undermined its primary function.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2020
Fashion in this context was not about looking au courant or attractive by some arbitrary standard.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2019
A day, therefore, is not and cannot be some arbitrary standard.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2015
"Progress" is a conception which we ourselves frame, and we measure a movement towards or away from this arbitrary standard of ours in terms of better or worse, higher or lower.
From A Grammar of Freethought by Chapman Cohen
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