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conformity

[kuhn-fawr-mi-tee] / kənˈfɔr mɪ ti /




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It can feel as if we are moving toward a similar aesthetic conformity in our own world.

From Slate Sep. 2, 2026

A sport cannot function seriously on a world scale without such conformity, and a World Cup - launched in 1963 and contested every four years since - needed that.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Over time, the profession begins to sort for ideological conformity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

For years before she landed at CBS News in October, Weiss built a career criticizing ideological conformity and supposed institutional intolerance.

From Salon Jun. 1, 2026

Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway?—diversity is the word.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Director Milos Forman was shaped by European sensibilities but his films were shrewd and intimate portraits of the yearnings, transgressions, politics, sexual fascinations, rebelliousness and complicated conformities that soothed, rattled and challenged the American spirit.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 2018

In particular, Garnett thoroughly scorned “commercialism, the insularity of the English, their demand that literature should merely endorse prevailing social norms and conformities, the expectation of ‘healthy optimism’ and a happy ending.”

From Washington Post Jan. 3, 2018

“Our contexts are not the same, our struggles are not the same, and so our rebellions and complacencies and conformities and compromises cannot be compared.”

From The New Yorker Apr. 6, 2017

The new suburbs spread out, the old traditions were gone and novel conformities improvised there, a new orthodoxy for the quietly desperate.

From The Guardian Oct. 4, 2012

If one has a right to conceal his true opinions, and to practice equivocal conformities, then all have a right.

From On Compromise by John Morley




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