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conformity

[kuhn-fawr-mi-tee] / kənˈfɔr mɪ ti /




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In his 2024 book, “A New Philosophy of Opera,” the American director Yuval Sharon offered a radical vision for an art form that is often mired in convention and conformity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

The family argued that their rights, which requires the State providing education to "respect the right of parents to ensure such education is in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions", had been contravened.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025

Unforced but ever-present in Reichardt’s mise-en-scène, they remind us that this bored aesthete’s misadventure is an especially empty way to buck conformity.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

That distinction is really significant in a world that expects invisibility and conformity for us to be seen as beautiful.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2025

No single concentration of power could enforce social and intellectual conformity in all the islands.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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