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as in ordinary
being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events
that fateful day had begun just like any normal workday
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as in stable
having full use of one's mind and control over one's actions
if you run around screaming like that, no one will think you are normal
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as in typical
having or showing the qualities associated with the members of a particular group or kind
she has normal reading abilities for a child her age
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as in average
what is typical of a group, class, or series
a temperature chart showing the normals and extremes for various regions
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Recent Examples of normal
Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 26 July 2025
Another told me that women in Australia in my situation live their lives as normal.
—Anna Russell, New Yorker, 26 July 2025
Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2025
For McClain, a colonel and Master Army aviator, that means adapting to a new normal of living and working in space.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 18 May 2025
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Adjective
Step 6: Choose the right cycle—Select a hot water setting (if safe for your items) and a normal or heavy-duty cycle.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 26 July 2025
Another told me that women in Australia in my situation live their lives as normal.
—Anna Russell, New Yorker, 26 July 2025
Noun
Darvish update Darvish is working his way back and figuring out how to work in his new normal.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2025
For McClain, a colonel and Master Army aviator, that means adapting to a new normal of living and working in space.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 18 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for normal
Adjective
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Welcome back to Elmore, where the laws of reality are a joke, and family life is anything but ordinary.—
DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
31 July 2025
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Netflix's The Sandman has love stories that are tangled, tragic and anything but ordinary — a stark contrast to the cast's real-life romances.—
Samantha Stutsman,
People.com,
31 July 2025
Adjective
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This stood in sharp contrast to the postwar American corporate experience, which operated within stable, predictable structures.—
Gabriel Snyder,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
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But for the majority, especially those without college degrees or stable career paths, life expectancy hasn’t improved.—
Teresa Ghilarducci,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
Adjective
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On a recent Friday morning, a group of half a dozen neighbors and business owners in Fountain Square gathered near Leonard Street, looking prepared for a typical neighborhood cleanup.—
Jordan Smith,
IndyStar,
26 July 2025
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Regents selected the two most recent UT presidential appointments at University of Texas at Dallas and UTHealth Houston after a national search by a presidential search advisory committee, per the typical policy.—
Lily Kepner,
Austin American Statesman,
25 July 2025
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But with a 10-year compound growth rate of 24.4%, the U.S. is now trailing the global average.—
Robert Rapier,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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This is far above the next highest average — Webber and fellow Aussie Ricciardo on seven percent.—
Alex Kalinauckas,
New York Times,
1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The Ortiz investigation is related to in-game prop bets on two pitches thrown by the right-hander that received higher activity than usual during his starts at Seattle on June 15 and against St. Louis on June 27.—
Jay Cohen,
Chicago Tribune,
28 July 2025
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Roeck’s Renaissance begins in the twelfth century—the high Middle Ages, in our usual accounting—and carries the story through the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, and the Baroque.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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The glasses are available in a Midas Fleck colorway, with a black lucid treatment and gold details, featuring Prizm 24K lenses.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
9 July 2025
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Han, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, has written about the Jeju uprising before in the brutal and lucid 2014 novel Human Acts.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
8 July 2025
Adjective
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The standard streetlights have since been installed, Ridley said, but the towering high mast lights remain in use as of late July, except during maintenance.—
Julianna Bragg,
CNN Money,
26 July 2025
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The final numbers include a max speed of Mach 0.94 (721 mph), an ultrahigh speed of Mach 0.92 (706 mph), and a standard cruise of Mach 0.85 (652 mph)—the latter delivering its benchmark range.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
26 July 2025
Noun
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These behavioral norms become the immune system of your culture.—
Brendan Keegan,
Rolling Stone,
23 July 2025
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The new norm of office fashion is all about balance.—
Karissa Mitchell,
Essence,
23 July 2025
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“Normal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/normal. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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