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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
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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
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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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