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ordinary

[awr-dn-er-ee] / ˈɔr dnˌɛr i /




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Through the character of Senhor José, Saramago illuminates a universal impulse to understand the lives of others, however ordinary.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Going forward, the most important thing for Kristersson is "to seize the moment" to improve the lives of "ordinary people".

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

Such materials could improve protection for cultural heritage sites, cars, major structures, and even ordinary garden fences.

From Science Daily Sep. 10, 2026

“A federal assessment that presents impacts derived primarily from implausible high emissions pathways as ordinary planning futures is inconsistent with these principles,” it says.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

Sometimes, however, for no reason that science can yet explain, a perfectly ordinary faux pas is not forgotten at all.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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 ordinaries thus frequented by Lord Fairfax was West's on the old Carolina Road, just south of the present Lee-Jackson Highway, and in the territory now hunted by the Middleburg pack.

From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Harrison Williams




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