normative
Example Sentences
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They can also feel like time capsules to other dimensions; his 12-year-old daughter was scandalized by how normative bullying was after she read “Blubber,” Blume’s 1974 novel about tween mean girls and body shaming.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
“A win for JoySauce is a win for anybody who feels underrepresented, who doesn’t feel like they’re considered the normative mainstream,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026
“What we once called the normative West no longer exists,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the leader of Europe’s most populous democracy, recently said at a gathering of business leaders in Berlin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
At the margins, there is always room to quibble about whether a provision is normative or required to measure income correctly, or actually designed to affect taxpayer behavior.
From Slate • Dec. 10, 2024
Understanding that nature is not normative does not mean that anything goes.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
