normative
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“There are certain normative restraints that would have held three years ago and no longer do,” said Sidharth Kaushal, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute think tank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
When the rumors of the relationship publicly surfaced in 2018, Antonoff denied “seeing anyone” and dismissed the chatter as “dumb hetero normative gossip.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
“Wuthering Heights” knew what it was about, and Brontë, despite her lack of firsthand experience in love, had the scripts of normative femininity dead to rights with the book’s relentless conflation of love and torment.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026
“The normative history of medical treatment until relatively recently is the history of the placebo effect,” psychiatrist Arthur K. Shapiro wrote in 1959.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2026
Understanding that nature is not normative does not mean that anything goes.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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