norm
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It wasn’t until the mid-1990s that clear documentation for gift agreements was the norm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
If anything, they’re starting to feel like the norm.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
That’s the norm, not the exception, in multiprospect trade packages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
This clear-eyed approach to end-of-life planning is not the norm, even when someone knows the end is coming sooner than they would have hoped.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
But speaking of *the norm,* the uncomfortable part—for me at least—is that Jupiter doesn’t know about any of it.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
At the state Republican meeting that month in Decatur, Lincoln had broken from political norms and appeared in person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Daily retail net buying of single stocks remains at its lowest level since 2020, according to Vanda Research, with the 21-day average sitting well below recent norms.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
By the 1960s, the women's liberation movement began challenging many of those norms.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
He is an outdoor person, like Rose; has trouble fitting into societal norms, like Rose; and he is an ideal intellectual partner for her, bantering, well-read and ready to engage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
By the time she turned twenty-three, she gave in to societal norms and decided to get married to a first cousin she had never met.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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