Procrustean bed
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The wild variety of American life can never be clamped down on the Procrustean bed of a single form of schooling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
There is grandeur in this new view of life, so why force it into the Procrustean bed of nineteenth-century theorizing?
From Scientific American ● Jun. 15, 2019
His verdicts, moreover, remain freshly minted and remarkably perceptive, however much he crams them into the Procrustean bed of his analytical framework.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2016
It’s a modern version of the Procrustean bed, and the people no longer have a say.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2016
At first the grade-system had a Procrustean bed that made it impossible to meet the needs of those below the average and almost as difficult to meet the needs of those above that average.
From The Family and it's Members by Anna Garlin Spencer
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