conventionally
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Ethical issues, such as those around life and death, are conventionally seen as matters for the consciences of individual MPs, so the government does not formally give a position.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
EWG continues to encourage people to eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, whether conventionally grown or organic.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026
The director, who like Mr. Coppola has cast a lead actor who isn’t conventionally handsome, has, also like Mr. Coppola, outfitted him with hair that is somewhere between entrancingly marvelous and distractingly ridiculous.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
PAN Europe advised consumers to buy organic apples or peel conventionally grown ones before eating them.
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026
Wegener investigated the many plant and fossil anomalies that did not fit comfortably into the standard model of Earth history and realized that very little of it made sense if conventionally interpreted.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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