procrustean
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If you’re the parent of a child with special needs who’s felt the cold procrustean hands of the public school system, you know what this father is up against.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2021
You're trying to fit me into this procrustean notion that you have of me.
From Time ● Jul. 22, 2010
Where the toe dared to protrude from the block, it is chopped off in procrustean fashion; a carnation sprouts from the gaping hole.
From Time Magazine Archive
That psychic procrustean bed is being splintered by Ferraro's campaign.
From Time Magazine Archive
Either way he might meet a procrustean fate; and, although a saving amount of theism might remain, he would not be sound or comfortable.
From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray
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