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“Widow’s Bay,” leaning into comedy, goes old school, conjuring familiar spectres that knowingly nod to “Jaws,” “Psycho,” the canonical works of King and John Carpenter, and other touchstones of cultural anxiety.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Their canonical example was early childhood education, but the logic applies just as well to faculty development.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The canonical case on this subject is 1987’s South Dakota v.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
"We took something old, which is this conservative, canonical approach to quantum gravity, and discovered something new that had been there all along," Alexander said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
A “grand canonical ensemble” is, oddly enough, the proper term for a quantitative model system in thermodynamics, borrowed from music by way of mathematics.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing canonical
The Importance of Being Earnest
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GRE Verbal Reasoning, List 8
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Out of Salem
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