How to Use norm in a Sentence

norm

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  • She scored well above the norm in math.
  • Women used to stay at home to take care of the children, but that's no longer the norm.
  • Smaller families have become the norm.
  • Reader might change that norm at the end of this season.
    — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • That level of per-capita loans was 45% above the U.S. norm.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 8 July 2024
  • That figure is well below the historic norm, the firm added.
    — Hannah Miao, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But the Care School is dedicated to the belief that such norms can be changed.
    — Christina Noriega, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But, like any wave, time passes, and even this novel style gets old and becomes sort of a norm.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The way she's taught me and every artist out here to break rules and defy industry norms.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The way she’s taught me and every artist out here to break rules and defy industry norms.
    — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Joey King is breaking beauty norms in the dystopian film Uglies.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2024
  • These are examples of norms that have to be followed and they’ve been transgressed.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 3 Aug. 2024
  • That subsided a couple of weeks ago, and things settled down to the local norm.
    — oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Your seat for this aural bliss is a comfy perch with softer padding than the BMW norm.
    — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Bus tickets on the Sudanese side cost more than five times the prewar norm, workers and drivers at the Aswan bus stop said.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • But the Midwest features stocks that are well below the national norms.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Policy changes are the key to changing social norms, Rao says.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Breaking style norms can be fun, and these gents are doing it with confidence.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2023
  • As the summer movie season kicks off, hopes are high for a box office that looks much closer to the prepandemic norm.
    — Dan Gallagher, wsj.com, 9 May 2023
  • So, when looking for toys, don’t play into gender norms.
    — Jessica Booth, Parents, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Two or three times is very common, though—almost a norm among my Russian-émigré friends.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Recently, a team of canon lawyers set out to propose norms to fill that legislative gap.
    — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 7 June 2023
  • But norms are very much socially constructed, and morals change across eras.
    — Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The news media has been enthralled with Mr. Trump’s norm-breaking charisma ever since.
    — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Milton’s elite size and arm strength are both beyond positional norms, but his throws are all gas, no brakes.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2024
  • The news, after all these years of talk about Trump’s norm-breaking and rogue behavior, leaves the pastor more weary than delighted.
    — Karen Alexander, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In the Cold War era, when the modern civil rights era was just beginning to bubble up, a Black woman kicked racist and sexist norms to the curb and told a White man what’s what.
    — Patrick Sauer, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The phone norms also change quickly, causing some people to feel left behind or confused.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Both try to overcome their social norms and traditions.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2023
  • Its lyrics encapsulate two of the biggest trends at the core of modern heterosexual dating: the passing of the girlboss era and the unexpected return of vintage gender norms.
    — Christine Emba, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2024

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