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[nawrm] / nɔrm /


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Incorporation in regulatory havens, the prohibition of shareholder class actions, and heavy share-based compensation have become the norm.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

The latter is baked into the law as a discretionary grant that is, despite USCIS’s description of it as an “extraordinary relief,” closer to the norm.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

That his hopefulness reads as synthetic or unrealistic is a broader indictment of how cruel the world has become, and how quickly we’ve accepted casual coldness as the norm.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

Competition plus new technology means that token price declines will return as the norm.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

They are a family, a modern family outside the norm, but not so unusual that plenty of others wouldn’t recognize themselves in it.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove




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