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Example sentences for: procrustean

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The source of the problem lies in the fact that there is no law forbidding ordinary mortals to bandy about terms like theory of relativity which only a few people in the world truly understand: to be sure, it is impossible to conceive of writing a definition for it that would fit into a dictionary's procrustean requirements.
Strict chronological presentation of dated citations is at best a lexicographic Procrustean bed, at worst very misleading.
We regret having to use this procrustean approach, but because of the difficulty of verifying genotypes and because numerous loci introduce improbable double-recombinant haplotypes, we have used exclusive criteria to ensure high-quality maps.
But it is quite another thing when it is foisted on an unsuspecting public as fact, when, indeed, it is either pure speculation or a writer's interpretation of the best way to make data fit into the procrustean bed of his theory.