normally

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“Since everything happened so suddenly and so quickly, I wasn’t very worried about it because normally, before the rumors start, we already know something — there’s always someone within the league who knows something.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

A glacier surge happens when ice that normally moves slowly suddenly speeds up.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026

The campaign was led by Gregory Bovino, a veteran Border Patrol chief who normally presided over a remote stretch of sand and scrub deep in the state’s Imperial Valley.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026

Anthropic and its chief executive, Dario Amodei, in some accounts, are selfless heroes, acting against the incentives that normally operate in business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Figure 4.47: The chromatic scale includes all the pitches normally found in Western music.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones