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

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

Exceptions to this procrustean rule are rare enough to be newsworthy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Either way he might meet a procrustean fate; and, although a saving amount of theism might remain, he would not be sound or comfortable.

From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Gray, Asa