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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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as in normalcy
the state or fact of being the way things usually are
the county slowly has returned to normality after a week of flash flooding
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Recent Examples of normal
Devonne Goode, Parents, 29 Jan. 2025
Book is nonetheless confident that the Trust will be able to maintain its normal operations, for now at least.
—Michael Wilner, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
Meredith Garofalo, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2024
For the new normal to be economically sustainable, streamers need to do a better job of optimizing their viewers’ time and attention.
—Jonathan Bing, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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Adjective
Peter of course is given great power–via an interesting route to the spider bite–and he's tasked with figuring out what to do with it while still trying to maintain the normal teen stuff.
—Devonne Goode, Parents, 29 Jan. 2025
Book is nonetheless confident that the Trust will be able to maintain its normal operations, for now at least.
—Michael Wilner, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
This includes both the monthly and daily normals of precipitation, temperature, snowfall, heating and cooling degree days, growing-degree days, as well as frost and freeze dates spanning across close to 15,000 different observation sites.
—Meredith Garofalo, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2024
For the new normal to be economically sustainable, streamers need to do a better job of optimizing their viewers’ time and attention.
—Jonathan Bing, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for normal
Adjective
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The policy blitz is intended to demoralize and disorient ordinary Americans and force them into resignation—either literal or figurative—to the far right's designs for American government and democracy.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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This is your chance to break free of the ordinary or mundane and embark on an adventure that nourishes your soul.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Two were taken to Ryder Trauma Center in critical and serious condition; the third is in stable condition.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
5 Feb. 2025
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They are thought to promote weight loss by increasing feelings of fullness and supporting more stable blood sugar levels after eating.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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On a typical day, when relaxing, Elizabeth can sit at her chabudai (a low Japanese tea table), look out her circle window and enjoy the seasons.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Jan. 2025
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To some degree, the one-two punch of decisions was typical politics.—
Luke Broadwater,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Lately, 17-year-old Chewie's health has been deteriorating, which Ripa has been heartbreakingly honest about on the morning show, but on Tuesday, the dog seemed her usual perky self, Ripa said.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
29 Jan. 2025
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Benefits provided by the Social Security administration, including retirement, survivor and disability benefits, will be paid as usual.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Over the past nine years, he had been evaluated at least nine times — only twice, court records show, was he judged at least temporarily lucid enough to stand trial.—
Kallie Cox,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Jan. 2025
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Penned in lucid moments, before morphine and hospice care silenced his thoughts to all but himself—the Last List takes one, hand in hand, on a last stroll back to the bygone days of an ingenious Catholic boy, a mill worker's striving son, for a final visit to beloved Lowell.—
Stephan Pechdimaldji,
Newsweek,
13 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The Colorado Bureau of Investigation currently takes more than five hundred days, on average, to process a rape kit.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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That means on average, the company spent 6 cents per claim on AI costs.—
Ganesh Rao,Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
3 Feb. 2025
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Dangerous, difficult, and risky conditions When a direct line to Reagan National Airport rang that Wednesday night, Hoagland said Local 36 first responders expected a routine report of a flight in distress.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN,
2 Feb. 2025
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Ted often turned routine shopping into a memorable experience by inventing games for the local children or sharing tall tales with his customers.—
Jason Phillips,
USA TODAY,
2 Feb. 2025
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As brutal as the action looks on the surface, there is some rational trading taking place, even if some of the moves in individual stocks end up being overdone.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
27 Jan. 2025
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Our rational impulses are so automatic, and so strong, that we’re now faced with the problem of what to do with the irrational.—
Joshua Rothman,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Normal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/normal. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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