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canonical

adjective as in accepted, recognized

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These included a prohibition on White House meddling in Justice Department prosecutions that took on canonical status.

To them, a Colombian actor wasn’t qualified to play a princess with a canonical history of having “skin as white as snow.”

So whenever I think about programming a canonical play, a part of my heart pushes against taking one of our season’s few slots away from a living writer.

Muse-ing doesn’t get much more canonical than that one-two shot, on top of the fact that her clothes on Richards’ frame secured him fashion status, too.

She finds absurd photos on the internet to juxtapose with canonical paintings that happen to be similar.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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