conventionally
Example Sentences
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In one sense, she’s dealing with a rights issue too painful to be aggressively aestheticized, but she’s also exploring a blood-soaked injustice that can’t be treated conventionally.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026
He doesn't want to sound "arrogant", but if you are not "conventionally attractive", he says, then there is little softmaxxing can do.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
The director, who like Mr. Coppola has cast a lead actor who isn’t conventionally handsome, has, also like Mr. Coppola, outfitted him with hair that is somewhere between entrancingly marvelous and distractingly ridiculous.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Once coherence was disrupted, the atoms behaved more conventionally.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026
The neckline and temples had been trimmed conventionally close, but the sides and top had been left rather more than just longish, and were, in fact, a trifle “distinguished-looking.”
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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