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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
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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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
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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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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
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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
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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Table 1 below shows the typical rally legs within a bull market are around 11% with the average a bit higher at 14%.—
Randy Watts,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
Adjective
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While Davidson stuck to his usual casual attire, his girlfriend went for a more formal look for the event.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
28 July 2025
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The volatility also comes amid the expectation of a peak shipping season that came and went earlier than usual due to the tariff whiplash.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
28 July 2025
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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
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For example, a June 2024 publication in the RAND Health Quarterly described how drug prices in the U.S. were on average nearly three times higher than those in 33 other high-income countries.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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The rankings are based on average rent and apartment size data for March 2025, from real estate data platform Yardi Matrix, which is operated by the same parent company as RentCafe.—
Mike Winters,
CNBC,
2 Aug. 2025
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In another shift, Thune and the NRSC are issuing routine joint endorsements of challengers like former RNC co-chair Michael Whatley in North Carolina, former Rep. Mike Rogers in Michigan, and Sen. John Cornyn in Texas in his primary against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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While automation works well for routine tasks, Wei explained that the hardest part is teaching agents to manage unexpected or complex situations.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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His team took a rational approach to update requirements that were the same for a single-family property versus a quad plex that took up the same physical footprint but had much different needs.—
Jennifer Castenson,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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Tubi and a planned Fox One are rational entries in streaming.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
28 July 2025
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“Normal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/normal. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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