normative
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Or were they swimming with the normative current in order to maintain careers, families, social standing — or, for that matter, to avoid being sent to asylums for shock treatment?
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
“Wuthering Heights” knew what it was about, and Brontë, despite her lack of firsthand experience in love, had the scripts of normative femininity dead to rights with the book’s relentless conflation of love and torment.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 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
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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