conformity
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Environmental damage, plastic waste and the conformity of suburbia prompted designers and countercultural communities to imagine other ways of living — up to a point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
It can feel as if we are moving toward a similar aesthetic conformity in our own world.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
Freed from the shackles of girl group conformity, Jade Thirlwall threw everything, including the kitchen sink, at her solo debut.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Warsh, a Fed governor from 2006 to 2011, has argued for more than a decade that the Fed’s forecasts breed conformity and its data are stale by the time policymakers see them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Or are they simply manifesting the worst aspects of adolescence—an obsession with conformity, group identity, and peer approval combined with an appetite for risk and sensation?
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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
For these seekers after truth, “the woods” became, like “the greenwood” in Merrie England, the place where an individual could truly savour the mysteries of life, free from the restricting conformities of church and state.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2017
“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 desire to be comme il faut, which underlies all conformities, whether of manners, dress, or styles of entertainment, is the desire which makes many a spendthrift and many a bankrupt.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
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Power Prefix: con-
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