canon
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Within the canon of adult animation,“The Simpsons” gets most of the credit for predicting the future, but “South Park” has at least one unnervingly good entry in the category.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
For women who, like me, came of age in the 1980s, “9 to 5” was a canon event, a feminist manifesto wrapped up in a hit comedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Rather than serving as "an impartial chronographic work," the researchers suggest it may instead have functioned as "a legitimizing canon of kings, which was periodically updated to remove short-lived or parallel Neo-Assyrian rulers."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Tomatoes, for example, first arrived in Italy in the 16th century and were not incorporated into the canon of that country’s cuisine until more than two centuries later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
He had his ’80s trivia down cold, and not just the canon stuff, either.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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