break convention

Frequency: 8.216.3 per million words

to do something different from what is usually done

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Examples (10)

  • She knew that she had broken an important social convention.
  • The artist was famous for breaking convention with his radical painting style.
  • Our company's new marketing strategy will break convention and attract a younger audience.
  • Wearing sneakers with a formal suit is a way to break convention in the fashion world.
  • She decided to break convention by proposing to him.
  • Do you think it's always necessary to break convention to be considered innovative?
  • Early modernist writers often sought to break the literary conventions of the Victorian era.
  • The new startup aims to break convention in the banking industry with its app-only service.
  • By choosing to travel the world instead of settling down, she broke the conventions of her small town.
  • If you want to make a statement, sometimes you have to be willing to break convention.