How to Use nonconformity in a Sentence

nonconformity

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  • As a teenager, he was embarrassed by his parents' nonconformity.
  • That said, the very quirky nonconformity of Tumblr’s users may, in fact, push them to leave.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
  • Past laws against cross-dressing and gender nonconformity were alive and well in the early to mid 1900s.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • There’s an ease that comes with not having to explain layers of your queerness and nonconformity.
    — Martine Thompson, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • That whole book is about nonconformity and about rejecting being the same.
    — Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • Jud, on the other hand, is open about his desires, his anger, his nonconformity, his inability to fit in.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 2 July 2019
  • The park has a gateway reminiscent of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and has long served as a place to celebrate nonconformity.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Monáe’s muse is nonconformity, but almost more as a concept than a practice.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2018
  • One group created a skit focused on the role of the church in denouncing gender nonconformity.
    — G. Samantha Rosenthal, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2021
  • In 1987, the world’s biggest sportswear company even used a song by the Beatles to praise nonconformity.
    — Jane Coaston, Vox, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Naturally, the nonconformity at the heart of Uncle Clifford’s essence shines through her glam.
    — Martine Thompson, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 July 2022
  • But at least there is the possibility of doubt and nonconformity.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2011
  • Some young tech companies are going through their own spell of nonconformity.
    — Shira Ovide, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2017
  • In a way, the rain may have been comforting at a time when nonconformity seemed to have overthrown Washington’s temperature regime.
    — Washington Post, 30 May 2021
  • Meyer, who has been public about his gender nonconformity for about two years, ran for homecoming prince in his freshman, sophomore and junior years, but didn’t win.
    — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Tea’s reporting from Camp Trans is the opposite of the broad and ignorant way that gender nonconformity is written about in mainstream news outlets.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 16 May 2018
  • That’s what confronted Lily Chrones, who found peace in gender nonconformity after years of making step-by-step video makeup tutorials and the like.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 19 May 2021
  • Gender nonconformity is a touchy subject, and parents who celebrate it in their children can be judged harshly.
    — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The outcome is school bookshelves devoid of books, because those that used to be there have been found wanting, or merely because no one has time to page through them in quest of textual nonconformities with white privilege.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Many of the protests of these years were aesthetic gestures, statements of nonconformity rather than expressions of a political program.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
  • In the episode, Van Ness and a group of notable cultural figures and activists dive into the long history of gender-nonconformity and the much more recent history of the modern gender binary.
    — NBC News, 28 Jan. 2022
  • After all, doesn’t every generation think it’s at the cutting edge of nonconformity?
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 24 July 2022
  • Their designs allude to change and nonconformity, which fashion has been becoming about lately.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 22 June 2023
  • In a culture where nonconformity is the only conformity, and vulgarity and coarseness are trendy, trendiness sells.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2021
  • The deemed gains may be triggered for state and local tax purposes due to nonconformity to the current Internal Revenue Code as revised if this provision is enacted.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The deemed gains may be triggered for state and local tax purposes due to nonconformity to the current Internal Revenue Code as revised, if this provision is enacted.
    — Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • But then Nielsen learned Ott had been accused of assault, gender nonconformity and even bank robbery before being committed to an insane asylum.
    — Margot Armbruster, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2020
  • To foster nonconformity and innovation, that has to change.
    — Francesca Gino, WSJ, 16 May 2017
  • Both silly and subversive and championing nonconformity, the Pee-wee universe was a trippy place, populated by things such as a talking armchair and a friendly pterodactyl.
    — Andrew Dalton, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2023
  • The district’s new policy, Stoller said, has left students in more tenuous situations in grave fear of being outed for gender nonconformity.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023

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