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"deviations from the norm" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to any behavior or thing that deviates from an accepted standard. For example, "Employees who arrive late to work are seen as deviations from the norm."
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The debate on ethnic differences in the Netherlands tends to focus on deviations from the norm, creating a tendency to distinguish between the ethnic Dutch population and the mainly non-western minorities (Gorashi 2006), thus ignoring differences between ethnic minority groups as well as individual differences within these groups.
Standard deviations from the norm decrease.
Any sudden deviations from the norm.
"Our discernment of subtle deviations from the norm will keep pace with technology," Tinwell predicts.
But the Falcons are not equipped to handle deviations from the norm.
Journalists customarily defend themselves from the charge of distortion by claiming their job is to report deviations from the norm of progress.
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At higher G+C contents, the trends are reversed albeit with lower deviations from the norms.
What happened then was a sharp deviation from the norm.
Traceable cause suggests a deviation from the norm.
"He is not a deviation from the norm, but the norm itself".
And yet it works, partially because any deviation from the norm is a better alternative.
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