normative
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Flavio’s candidacy has been presented as a less extreme and more socially normative version of his father’s policies, according to Dorson.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
When the rumors of the relationship publicly surfaced in 2018, Antonoff denied “seeing anyone” and dismissed the chatter as “dumb hetero normative gossip.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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
We had professor Aziz Huq on the show to talk about Ernst Fraenkel’s “dual state” theory and what happens when you have two operating legal systems—the normative state and the prerogative state.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2025
Understanding that nature is not normative does not mean that anything goes.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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