ordinary people
Example Sentences
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The case asks whether the Fourth Amendment still means what Americans think it means as surveillance becomes automated, invisible, and broad enough to treat entire groups of ordinary people as searchable by default.
From Slate • May 20, 2026
In “Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World,” he speaks for the ordinary people of the past in their concrete reality.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
"I don't know if there were jihadists at the market. We are just ordinary people," Mala Garba, 42, told AFP from a hospital in Borno state capital Maiduguri while recovering from bullet wounds.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
Fresh fruits and vegetables — when available — are often priced beyond the reach of ordinary people.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
Maybe, like picking out clothes, he couldn’t waste time on the mundane things that ordinary people did.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
