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Adam Pally, Casey Wilson, Elisha Cuthbert, and Zachary Knighton and executive producers David Caspe and Jonathan Groff, debated at the panel, are of questionable canonicity.
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Vulture, 13 Nov. 2022
In late 2020, Patty Jenkins also claimed that all the DC directors ignore the canonicity of Whedon’s version, and side with the Snyder Cut in their storytelling.
—Ryan Britt, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2021
There was something powerful and transgressive about adopting the syllabus, with its air of canonicity and expertise, to describe worlds that had grown in the shadows of official neglect.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2020
And boom—a new, low-canonicity idea was born, primed to go viral.
—National Geographic, 7 Oct. 2016
Lower canonicity means the idea is more unusual, and more likely to go viral.
—National Geographic, 7 Oct. 2016
Lower canonicity means the idea is more unusual, and more likely to go viral.
—National Geographic, 7 Oct. 2016
And boom—a new, low-canonicity idea was born, primed to go viral.
—National Geographic, 7 Oct. 2016
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Vulture, 13 Nov. 2022
In late 2020, Patty Jenkins also claimed that all the DC directors ignore the canonicity of Whedon’s version, and side with the Snyder Cut in their storytelling.
—Ryan Britt, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2021
There was something powerful and transgressive about adopting the syllabus, with its air of canonicity and expertise, to describe worlds that had grown in the shadows of official neglect.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2020
And boom—a new, low-canonicity idea was born, primed to go viral.
—National Geographic, 7 Oct. 2016
Lower canonicity means the idea is more unusual, and more likely to go viral.
—National Geographic, 7 Oct. 2016
Lower canonicity means the idea is more unusual, and more likely to go viral.
—National Geographic, 7 Oct. 2016
And boom—a new, low-canonicity idea was born, primed to go viral.
—National Geographic, 7 Oct. 2016
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“Canonicity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canonicity. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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