social conventions
Example Sentences
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She's got this brain that learns very quick and it's not conditioned by social conventions.
From Salon • Dec. 12, 2023
The film is the latest in a naturally evolving project for Krieps of playing women throughout history who reject the social conventions of their times.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2023
We assessed how sensitive children were to social conventions about how they should behave.
From Scientific American • Jul. 14, 2023
The pressures to keep quiet, and the stakes of doing so, are heightened for women of color, who are told in subtle and unsubtle ways that they will face consequences for breaking from social conventions.
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2023
The conventional wisdom at the time held that expressions were culturally determined—that is, we simply used our faces according to a set of learned social conventions.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
