ordinarily
Example Sentences
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Arsenal awarded Manninger a league winner's medal following the 1997-98 season despite him not having played the required number of games ordinarily required.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Choreographer Annie-B Parson’s dancers eloquently, if ordinarily, escort Tristan and Isolde to the other side, leaving their egos behind.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
“Loss,” as even the government admitted, “is ordinarily understood to capture unintentional conduct,” the justice wrote.
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026
But as the Chief writes, the term “‘regulate,’ as that term is ordinarily used, means to ‘fix, establish, or control; to adjust by rule, method, or established mode.’
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
At other moments Francis would endeavor to fill my brain with crystallographic facts, ordinarily available only through the painful reading of professional journals.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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