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

And all their written words are conventionalized pictures anyway.

From Time Magazine Archive

And Manikin and Minikin, in Alfred Kreymborg's Manikin and Minikin, are conventionalized puppets representing the light yet half-serious bickerings, jealousies, and quarrellings of human nature.

From Contemporary One-Act Plays by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)