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norm

/nɔːm/

An illustration for norm

noun

an established standard of performance or behavior

  • “Accepting the other's norms is submitting to the other's power.”Tatoeba
  • “There is no evil where evil is the norm.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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