canonical
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For queer people who never had the canonical experience of grinding in their high school gym, a party called Trakata fills that primal need — and operates on the same queer, rebellious frequency as neoperreo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The canonical case on this subject is 1987’s South Dakota v.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
But it is worth remembering that the canonical anatomy presented in textbooks is best understood as a teaching model, not a perfect representation of biological reality.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
Each IP’s canonical films also must have maximum distribution in order to transform a mere movie into a shared cultural memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
As before, archaeologists became gun-shy about arguing that Indians arrived in the Americas before the canonical date.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing canonical
The Importance of Being Earnest
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GRE Verbal Reasoning, List 8
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