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conventionality

[kuhn-ven-shuh-nal-i-tee] / kənˌvɛn ʃəˈnæl ɪ ti /








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But the Met’s desperation for conventionality — read accessibility — never quite recedes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

But when intellectuals refuse to render moral judgments, when they sink into safe conventionality, that in itself is a kind of judgment.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025

Or maybe it has more to do with Lana’s use of convention to smash conventionality.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

Maes, meanwhile, grew up bucking against a “controlling mother,” Kapur writes, and the narrow conventionality of Flanders.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2021

I suspect that inside the impenetrable fortress of conventionality he’s become, there’s one crazy-ass museum.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson




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