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canonical

[kuh-non-i-kuhl] / kəˈnɒn ɪ kəl /


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For queer people who never had the canonical experience of grinding in their high school gym, a party called Trakata fills that primal need — and operates on the same queer, rebellious frequency as neoperreo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The canonical case on this subject is 1987’s South Dakota v.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

But it is worth remembering that the canonical anatomy presented in textbooks is best understood as a teaching model, not a perfect representation of biological reality.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026

Each IP’s canonical films also must have maximum distribution in order to transform a mere movie into a shared cultural memory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

As before, archaeologists became gun-shy about arguing that Indians arrived in the Americas before the canonical date.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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