canon
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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 part of me that’s a sucker for goal-setting and self-transformation also wondered: What if, rather than reject the parenting canon, I were to embrace it?
From Slate • May 10, 2026
There is no definitive answer to the canon because the intellectual journey is central to the point.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Audiences can rest assured that the emotional core that secured the play’s spot in the theater canon will be preserved no matter what changes are made.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 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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