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Also, she was tall and thin, too, further adding to the ways she met the physical beauty conventions.

To reclaim it, he had to move beyond established conventions about how a literary career should be conducted.

Though her work discords with the conventions of American medicine, she sees herself on the side of an older tradition.

They have conventions for dance, and these kids go around the country as the winner.

It has killed over 200 people on screen, plenty of cinematic conventions regarding good taste, and at least one movie theater.

I always thought that people wore it very very short if they despised the conventions of society.

There are certain social conventions attached even to a Dragon Maid.

It was the old earth music, and it drowned the recollection of social conventions and caste distinctions.

New truth is only wanted to expand, not to destroy, our civil and often elegant conventions.

The newspapers had ridiculed such conventions, and they were looked upon as legitimate subjects for ridicule.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to conventions, such as: agreement, code, contract, covenant, custom, and obligation.

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

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