Example Sentences

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Being trans has helped me study the evolution of neural systems, because I don’t assume that things like neurodivergence, which are normatively considered to be “disorders” are necessarily evolutionary disadvantages.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 14, 2024

“I think that’s the problem with bitcoin — the tax evasion has become normatively accepted.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2022

“It would be normatively disastrous if they went back on some of their public statements trying to defend more marginalized or vulnerable voices,” he said.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2022

“The assumption with these proposals is that it would be normatively better if more people voted,” John Samples, a vice president at the libertarian Cato Institute, said in an email.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2018

Medvedev, temperamentally, educationally, normatively was much closer to Obama than Putin.

From Slate • May 10, 2018