conventionalized
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They're perfectly legitimate to study and they're interesting, but the reason I'm less interested in them is because they're conventionalized.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023
There are displays, often conventionalized within the norms of a culture: displays of power, strength, wealth, beauty, generosity, cleverness, and social status.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2013
He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib.”
From Slate ● May 18, 2013
It is not hard for them to imagine a fairly near future--or an alternate contemporary reality--in which the conventionalized perils of Survivor begin to pall, and some TV producer decides to raise the stakes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In the temple-palaces of Egypt, one of the regular architectural members, the sustaining pier, is often systematically wrought in the actual likeness of a conventionalized cluster of lotus stems, with lotus flowers for the capital.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various