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

Gainsborough's drawings reveal his close studies of nature, but from his mid-30s onward he came to rely more and more on conventionalized signs.

From Time Magazine Archive

After looking through several wall paper catalogues I chose paper with a light background and an inconspicuous, conventionalized design in pastel tones of blue-green, red-orange, violet, and yellow.

From The Teaching of Art Related to the Home Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics by Education, Federal Board for Vocational