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norm

noun as in average, standard

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A majority of panelists indicated that managing headcount is still the norm at companies, rather than hiring.

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Also, to justify the current valuation of the S&P 500, earnings will have to expand 15% per year from now to 2030, which is double the historical norm, Rosenberg noted.

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He argued that both parties are sacrificing democratic norms and the ideas of procedural fairness as well as a representative democracy for political gain.

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Ms Anderson said the friends had been brought up "in the church" in Birmingham and it was "the norm" to be in a choir.

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In this super-charged update of U.S. gunboat diplomacy, critics say laws are being ignored, norms sidestepped and protocol set aside.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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