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ordinary

[awr-dn-er-ee] / ˈɔr dnˌɛr i /




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Those are the going rates for what used to be ordinary care: someone who knows you, sees you promptly and has time to think about your test results.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Those withdrawals were taxed as ordinary income at the top marginal rate, currently 37% on income over $751,600 for married couples.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Leading up to the eclipse itself, experts were warning only genuine specially-designed solar eclipse glasses should be used, and that ordinary sunglasses or other devices were not enough to prevent potential damage.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Instead of being powered by the nuclear fusion that fuels ordinary stars, the object may consist of an extremely dense cloud of gas energized by a black hole at its center.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

Or maybe his mind was just trying once more to turn something surreal and unbelievable into something ordinary and familiar and easily dismissed.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The only way in which ordinary shares can become ADRs is if someone were to convert ADRs to ordinaries and create room.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Ms. Wolfe started digging there and in other archives, and so far has gathered a dozen unknown or forgotten depictions of the arms in heraldic reference works called alphabets and ordinaries.

From New York Times Jun. 29, 2016

Photograph: Courtesy of Susan Faludi If someone were to ask me to declare my identity, I’d say that, along with such ordinaries as nationality and profession, I am a woman and I am a Jew.

From The Guardian Jun. 4, 2016

What actually constitutes "immodest fashion" the Twelve Orders leave to be construed by the local ordinaries of dioceses, as circumstances may require.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster




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