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ordinary

[awr-dn-er-ee] / ˈɔr dnˌɛr i /




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We don’t usually think of pastors as wobbly in their own faith, but doubt stalks them just as much as it does any ordinary human being.

From Los Angeles Times

But an error on the euthanasia form, marking the reason as overpopulation in the shelter rather than a risk to public safety, meant he was still available to ordinary adopters such as Wright.

From Los Angeles Times

Withdrawals for education, housing or business will be taxed as ordinary income.

From Los Angeles Times

It accuses the law firm of a “systematic scheme of fraud operating beneath the surface of ostensibly ordinary asbestos litigation.”

From Los Angeles Times

Talk less about him and more about the needs of ordinary Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal