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canon

[kan-uhn] / ˈkæn ən /


NOUN
a body of the most important, influential or superior works in music, literature, or art
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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

As in every debate about the canon, there will be fights about what is in and what is out.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

These geeks – a term I use lovingly, for the most part – protected the notion of canon as fiercely as their lunchbox collections.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

“Dept. of Speculation” by Jenny Offill is a forebear of the short-and-sweet literary canon.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

By then I’d read Chancellor Williams, J. A. Rogers, and John Jackson—writers central to the canon of our new noble history.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates




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