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Definition of Deviants
1. deviant [n] - See also: deviant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deviants
Literary usage of Deviants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Measuring Childcare Practices: Approaches, Indicators and Implications for by Marie T. Ruel, Mary Arimond (2003)
"The authors report large differences between the three groups (positive deviants,
median group, and negative deviants) in feeding patterns, ..."
2. Victimization: Nature and Trends by Willem Johannes Schurink (1992)
"Introduction: deviants as victimizers. In: Macnamara, DEJ & Karmen, A (eds).
deviants: Victims or victimizes! ..."
3. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"The mechanisms employed to 'prevent the battle' require that 'sexual
dissidents (deviants) are not heard by the dominant society', a refusal to hear
that is ..."
4. The Creative Society of the 21st Century by OECD Forum for the Future (2000)
"These "positive deviants" had an extraordinary effect on the rest of the ...
Government organisations need to find ways to harness positive deviants in ..."
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