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The phrase "deviant for" is correct and can be used in written English
It is often used to describe someone or something that is considered unusual or outside of societal norms. Example: The artist's work was considered deviant for its use of controversial and explicit themes.
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"His name," Mr. Cohen writes, "became a tag for abject failure, for deviant, for skank.
His legacy has been tainted by his close relationship with Mr. Mashaei, whom traditionalists call a "deviant" for what they view as his liberal ideas on Islam.
Elsewhere, Songs sound reminiscent of Brisbane's own Go-Betweens and even a little deviant – for example, the Warhol-esque S&M connotations of the jangle-laden, failed romantic pop of Alone When I'm With You.
The blues is a musical style that originated with African Americans in the deep south of the US, and also cheeses injected with mould – and I am apparently the deviant for not wanting to eat this stuff – while the cheese matures.
At its core, queerness is not about being deviant for the sake of being deviant or preserving a deviant identity.
The idea of human nature as infected with original sin has provided a theological justification to the cultural notion that homosexuality is deviant for Christians in the West.
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Critics of labeling theory have argued that it underplays the personal responsibility of deviants for their own behaviour.
They nudge by clarity, consistency, good communications skills and allow themselves to be positive deviants for sustainability, to reference Sara Parkin's work.
In this study, considering the data feature of the energy system, we classify the anomalies as the trend anomaly for the pseudo-periodic data and the deviants for the generic data.
Here, even if more than one member showed length-deviant character, they were termed as "length-deviant" for sparsely populated superfamilies.
The classification methods (More than 75% of members have to be >30% length-deviant for the superfamily to be called as length-deviant) applied in earlier studies when applied on PASS2.3 dataset did not yield encouraging results due to its subjective nature.
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