deviance
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The character’s deviance from all authority and especially male authority lives in her feminism, her clothes and her music taste.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2024
The study also showed that the brainstem can utilize other features of bat calls for deviance detection, such as rapid changes in frequency or volume, in addition to differences in pitch.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2024
“Because any time there is a deviance in regards to security protocols, that should be taken serious, it should be investigated,” Ms. Omar said.
From Washington Times • Jan. 16, 2023
“For someone like me who comes from India, she’s made me feel that I belonged. It was okay to be different. My deviance wasn’t wrong,” he said.
From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2022
Without equality, eugenics would inevitably falter on the false premise that social ills, such as vagrancy, pauperism, deviance, alcoholism, and feeblemindedness were genetic ills—while, in fact, they merely reflected inequality.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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