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
That psychic procrustean bed is being splintered by Ferraro's campaign.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Fiction would have to yield to his procrustean devices.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He was exceedingly emotional and intellectual; and the procrustean bed of a creed would have been intolerable torture to him.
From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert