procrustean

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If you’re the parent of a child with special needs who’s felt the cold procrustean hands of the public school system, you know what this father is up against.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021

You're trying to fit me into this procrustean notion that you have of me.

From Time • Jul. 22, 2010

Like so many before it, the procrustean Hearts and Minds began as a warrior; it ends as a casualty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Where the toe dared to protrude from the block, it is chopped off in procrustean fashion; a carnation sprouts from the gaping hole.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has been criticised as too mechanical, as illogical in arrangement of classes, as presenting many incongruities in its divisions, as procrustean, as wholly inadequate in its classification of jurisprudence, etc.

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