normative
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They can also feel like time capsules to other dimensions; his 12-year-old daughter was scandalized by how normative bullying was after she read “Blubber,” Blume’s 1974 novel about tween mean girls and body shaming.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
“A win for JoySauce is a win for anybody who feels underrepresented, who doesn’t feel like they’re considered the normative mainstream,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026
“What we once called the normative West no longer exists,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the leader of Europe’s most populous democracy, recently said at a gathering of business leaders in Berlin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
So we’re talking about more than half the people in the Southern California region now who are subject to this different regime, that’s not one based on the normative rules that apply to others.
From Slate • Sep. 15, 2025
Understanding that nature is not normative does not mean that anything goes.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
