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procrustean

[proh-kruhs-tee-uhn] / proʊˈkrʌs ti ən /


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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

Fiction would have to yield to his procrustean devices.

From Time Magazine Archive

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




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