How to Use deviance in a Sentence
deviance
noun
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Schools in the country will also remain open, a deviance from the first round of quarantines.
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Spencer Neale,
Washington Examiner,
6 Nov. 2020
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For all the deviance, the play's ambitions remain rooted to the study of its characters.
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Chris Jones,
chicagotribune.com,
1 July 2018
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Until then, the raw meat boys will see themselves as outsiders, and outsiders breed deviance.
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Luke Winkie,
Bon Appétit,
31 Aug. 2022
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Oleksiy Makeev, Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany was also there, and raised his fist in deviance when the camera panned to him.
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Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2023
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Gender traitors and rebels are hanged on the wall, a continual threat that any deviance from Gilead will not be tolerated.
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refinery29.com,
9 May 2018
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She's made to watch a weird short film about deviance, which happens to star Moose and Kevin as two young men who forgo socializing with women to spend time alone together.
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Amy MacKelden,
Harper's BAZAAR,
29 Mar. 2018
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That gave researchers a chance to see whether any deviance from vaccination schedules or logistics issues for the shot, which has to be stored frozen, would change outcomes.
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Jason Gale,
Fortune,
25 Feb. 2021
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These efforts helped mainstream the idea working on one's physique was a sign of normal male sexuality, not deviance.
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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela,
CNN,
14 Dec. 2021
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One study found that people littered in their work environments as an act of deviance against their employer.
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi,
Discover Magazine,
8 Apr. 2023
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The film’s deviance amounts to little more than a few campy in-jokes: when the villain breaks into Ana and Christian's penthouse, a member of their security detail pins him down and laments her lack of restraints.
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Leah Pickett,
Chicago Reader,
9 Feb. 2018
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Hartman looks at women who have been narrated in terms of deviance and deprivation, and asks us to see their lives as experiments in new kinds of freedom and loving.
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New York Times,
19 Sep. 2019
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Early urban reformers, such as Jacob Riis and Jane Addams in the first decades of the twentieth century, were quick to link urban blight and social deviance.
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Max Holleran,
The New Republic,
3 Dec. 2020
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Any minor deviance from the manager’s strategy will be perceived as a personal attack and will be met with punishment.
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Jack Kelly,
Forbes,
16 Aug. 2022
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The show tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work.
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Joe Otterson,
Variety,
27 June 2022
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A barricade of deviance and grit kept much of the straight world out, protecting the neighborhood’s unconventional character.
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Jeremiah Moss,
Longreads,
24 July 2017
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Her latest veers more toward the comic camp, exploring raunchy proclivities and unbelievable deviances in a trailer park of the near future.
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Atlanta Life,
ajc,
18 May 2017
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Marijuana figures sharply in those stereotypes, feeding myths of black social deviance.
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Syreeta McFadden,
Rolling Stone,
1 July 2021
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Instead, partly by lifting the pressure of secrecy and diminishing the feeling of deviance, the talk will loosen the hold of hallucinations and, crucially, the grip of isolation.
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New York Times,
17 May 2022
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The reason reality shows about hoarding flourished a decade ago, the critic Scott Herring has argued, is that hoarding was a special case in which the larger culture tipped into definable deviance.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harper's Magazine,
15 Sep. 2020
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The science of the matter is unequivocal: Addiction is a chronic and treatable medical condition, not a weakness of will or character or a form of social deviance.
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Nora D. Volkow,
Scientific American,
31 Aug. 2021
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Criminologists have long known that networks play an important role in deviance and violence.
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Annie Sweeney,
chicagotribune.com,
1 Aug. 2019
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Most of Trump’s loyal Republican officials and thought leaders have allowed the normalization of his political deviance by their deeds and failure to speak out.
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Doug Friednash,
The Denver Post,
22 Nov. 2019
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Reed combined literary aspirations with a fearless eye for deviance and, by extension, a staunch defense of freedom of expression.
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James Sullivan,
San Francisco Chronicle,
4 Jan. 2018
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Wearing a set of horns on his head, with a pair of hooves replacing his feet, the singer intentionally evokes the image of Baphomet, an ancient pagan deity often considered a symbol of pluralism and deviance from societal norms.
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Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
11 Feb. 2022
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Lopez, however, brings such a breathless, seemingly effortless blend of manic desperation, sincerity, and deviance to Hustlers that to nominate anyone else who doesn’t bring at least that caliber to the screen is just a crime.
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Candice Frederick,
Harper's BAZAAR,
14 Jan. 2020
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In places like John Calvin’s Geneva, efforts to enforce moral discipline ranged from the obvious (punishing sexual deviance) to the odd (making bibles available at pubs to encourage spiritual reflection).
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Shadi Hamid,
The Atlantic,
24 May 2017
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Their stories have been elevated by Cruella’s delicious deviance.
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Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
2 June 2021
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This Catholic form of revanchism would obliterate church-state barriers and superimpose a terrestrial layer of morality and control, under the auspices of natural law, to root out deviance and knit together the republic.
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Peter Hammond Schwartz,
The New Republic,
3 Feb. 2021
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Instead of turning men into hardworking teetotalers, Prohibition encouraged new kinds of social deviance, such as organized crime.
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Trysh Travis,
The Conversation,
7 Apr. 2021
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However, there are also innate characteristics that can make someone uniquely vulnerable or invulnerable; extreme family traits or circumstances that explain the deviance.
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Chris Cuomo,
CNN,
14 June 2018
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