ordinariness
Example Sentences
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People from West Asia are so often shown through images of violence, Korkejian says, that their joy, style and ordinariness can disappear from view.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The last gets better mileage than the running gag about his ordinariness, which is still being used in the closing minutes of the film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
In their ordinariness, some photos I’ve seen of those deported immigrant families remind me of my own family.
From Salon ● May 25, 2025
Finally, after a prompt for “terrifying normality,” it produced what it described as “a completely blank, featureless white canvas,” which it said “represents the very essence of ordinariness taken to its absolute limit.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
There’s no need to invoke any special parapsychological abilities; the ordinariness of apparently predictive dreams does not need any ex plaining.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
