How to Use normative in a Sentence

normative

adjective
Definition of normativenext
  • The only way to counter normative drift is to stiffen the guardrails.
    — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Find a dark hole and cry from the injustice of not having the most normative nob?
    — Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Though there is some science in the comment, a lot of it is about normative concerns.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2012
  • That is a question where the answer to that is, No. 1, both normative and positive.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2019
  • And somehow, her over-the-top gender-normative attire isn’t a turnoff.
    — Jen Gann, The Cut, 27 June 2017
  • In the West, hookup culture is normative among adolescents and young adults.
    — Louise Perry, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Some feel alienated from the normative roles of wife and mother.
    — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
  • One of the requisites of effective satire is that there has to be a kind of normative baseline from which things go awry.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2022
  • The second is more normative, and that is upholding the non-use of chemical weapons.
    — Israel Kasnett, Jewish Journal, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Right now, my sons don’t have a gender normative framework yet.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 Apr. 2019
  • To many, the word burlesque may first bring to mind an image of a certain type of normative, white, cisgender woman.
    — Steven Thrasher, Teen Vogue, 18 July 2019
  • For many Americans, Trump’s lack of a legal and normative compass was too much to endure.
    — Norman Eisen, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
  • On one side stood the humanitarians, who viewed the EU as a normative power, a shining light on a hill.
    — The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
  • For one, this is a very gender normative way to measure handsomeness.
    — oregonlive, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Today, the power and appeal of putting Black and nonwhite, non-normative faces of any kind onscreen is self-evident.
    — Jordan Coley, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Despite her brassy assurance, Deep Water obeys the most normative rules its genre, with de Armas showing off more skin than any of her paramours.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The Parisienne’s static archetype seemed to embrace less normative, narrow ideals towards a wider scope of lifestyles and choices.
    — Alice Pfeiffer, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Some though prefer to describe the listing as a global normative framework.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Cabin crew uniforms are well-known for being strict and gender normative.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Let the middle form normative effects to influence the naysayers.
    — David Rock, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • This new age of warfare will have normative advantages.
    — Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The vilification of the 'other side' is now normative among too large a swath of our population.
    — Nate Bennett, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Garner was born in Naperville, Ill., in 1942 and recalls feeling detached from the normative culture of suburbia at an early age.
    — Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 30 June 2023
  • The film was very much about Cady, played mostly as a normative character by an early-career Lindsay Lohan.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Trying to provide more of a normative environment that is less stressful for inmates and staff.
    — Mike Hendricks, kansascity.com, 27 May 2017
  • This normative model is analogous to the normative growth charts used in pediatric offices to track height and weight in young children, the authors said.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The right wants to assert control over an array of non-normative sexualities, family units, and ways of being in the world.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 6 July 2022
  • Even in a love match beyond social norms of that era, the normative problems of power and dependency insist on arising.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2017
  • To most foreign policy elites, who view U.S. power as a normative good, this trend appears dreadful.
    — Andrew Byers, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2024
  • Tattoos covered both of his arms — a style element that my teenage children tell me is now considered normative.
    — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020

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