canon
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Yet even though it reprints 25 key works, “Vampire Tales” can only sample the canon of important Victorian-era stories of the undead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Throughout the season, “Lanterns” played upon established canon to thread a host of themes.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
In our list, you’ll find titles that confront Sept. 11 directly, but others that bring to mind a deeper, broader canon of trauma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Rather than serving as "an impartial chronographic work," the researchers suggest it may instead have functioned as "a legitimizing canon of kings, which was periodically updated to remove short-lived or parallel Neo-Assyrian rulers."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
“The Game of the Century” has been talked about, analyzed, and admired for more than fifty years, and it will probably be a part of the canon of chess for many years to come.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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