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Six example sentences with norm, each labelled with its topic.
Open plan offices became the norm in the nineties, and only recently have firms started rebuilding interior walls.
Architecture
In that village, greeting every neighbor by name is the norm, and skipping it reads as a deliberate slight.
Psychology
Painting outdoors was the norm for that circle, so a studio canvas from any of them looks strange.
Art
Tipping fifteen percent is the norm in that city, and economists note that the figure has crept upward every decade.
Economics
Forty three-point attempts a game is now the norm, where twenty would have been considered reckless a generation ago.
Basketball
Standing meetings of ten minutes became the norm at the company after an hour-long one produced no decisions at all.
Startups
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