canon
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It was my duty to teach the canon, even if I didn’t agree with Didion, because my students needed to be aware of her.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Italian dressing packets might be my favorite warm-weather entry in the flavor packet canon.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
For Girl Like Me, PinkPantheress wanted the piece to have a canon sequence, Keflezgy says, which is where dancers perform the same movement but in a staggered way.
From BBC • May 29, 2026
The novel was slow to sell and slow to find its place in the canon.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
By then I’d read Chancellor Williams, J. A. Rogers, and John Jackson—writers central to the canon of our new noble history.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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