procrustean

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If you’re the parent of a child with special needs who’s felt the cold procrustean hands of the public school system, you know what this father is up against.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021

You're trying to fit me into this procrustean notion that you have of me.

From Time • Jul. 22, 2010

Where the toe dared to protrude from the block, it is chopped off in procrustean fashion; a carnation sprouts from the gaping hole.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most cunning of all, Deng has stretched the procrustean bed of Maoism to fit his own needs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Iron- bound, impersonal ethics, the procrustean bed of rules, he soon saw at their true value as the deification of averages.

From Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Stevenson, Robert Louis