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Women of colour who face racist practices can not be simply incorporated into models which assume white women as the norm.

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 Meanings and Examples of NORM
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norm
 n.  convention; standard; rule
Classic Sentence:
1  The first project was, to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because, in reality, all things imaginable are but norms.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
Example Sentence:
1  Of his age, the child is above the norm in arithmetic.
2  Women of colour who face racist practices can not be simply incorporated into models which assume white women as the norm.
3  There's a production norm below which each worker must not fall.
4  Short term contracts are now the norm with some big companies.
5  The recent pattern of weather deviates from the norm for this time of year.
6  Families of six or seven are the norm in Borough Park.
7  Single parents seem to be the norm rather than the exception nowadays.
8  Joyce's style of writing was a striking departure from the literary norm.
9  This was revoked after the scandals of the clean hands bribery scandal which caused a political earthquake at the time in a country where it had become the norm for businessmen to bribe politicians, but now it is back to square one.
10  The norms of citizen behavior found in these texts stress the participant aspects of political culture.