normative
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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
The questions largely avoided normative judgments altogether, focusing instead more narrowly on doctrine, statutory structure, and the limits of judicial review.
From Slate • Jan. 14, 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
Understanding that nature is not normative does not mean that anything goes.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing normative
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