ordinarily
Example Sentences
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Knotts held that drivers ordinarily have no reasonable expectation of privacy in movements visible on public thoroughfares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The useful unit isn’t a prescribed number of ounces or cups; it’s however much your household ordinarily reaches for when making one meal.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
Because the black hole was not actively consuming matter, it would ordinarily have remained invisible.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Although the agency possesses broad authority to issue market-monitoring requests, these lenders generally fall below its $10 billion supervisory threshold and therefore are not ordinarily subject to this level of scrutiny.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
I can’t bring myself to ruin it for them, not when their lives are ordinarily so dismal.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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