canon
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Working with her own company in Lenox, which became a nationally renowned regional theater, or elsewhere around the country, she would direct 37 of Shakespeare’s plays—what she and many others consider the complete canon.
But they may feel that “Starfleet Academy” has more in common with “Harry Potter” and the rest of the kids-at-boarding-school stories, a canon that would seem to predate the Big Bang.
Pre-shredded rotisserie chicken has quietly entered the canon for a reason.
From Salon
“That is an opportunity you cannot turn down,” he says, even though he only had a week to prepare the most famous soliloquies in the Western canon.
From Los Angeles Times
In 2026, there are second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh movies entering their respective franchise canons.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
