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canon

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

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Another chapter in the canon of Ashes cricket in this country.

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Gobo’s foray into our world will become part of the show’s canon.

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It’s never been widely accepted Christian canon, but there’s no reason why what isn’t holy scripture couldn’t be a holy-moly script.

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This cohort, broadly known as the Lost Generation, would become central to the formalization of the American canon.

And in most of these cases, the primary attraction, King’s canon, also becomes the concrete boots dragging down a script.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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