canon
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Italian dressing packets might be my favorite warm-weather entry in the flavor packet canon.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
For Girl Like Me, PinkPantheress wanted the piece to have a canon sequence, Keflezgy says, which is where dancers perform the same movement but in a staggered way.
From BBC • May 29, 2026
The novel was slow to sell and slow to find its place in the canon.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The part of me that’s a sucker for goal-setting and self-transformation also wondered: What if, rather than reject the parenting canon, I were to embrace it?
From Slate • May 10, 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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