ordinary people

Example Sentences

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The question is whether private-credit trouble could spill into the wider economy or—disaster—the wider financial system, especially the banks where ordinary people keep their deposits.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

It was a backlash against millionaires who were profiting off the backs of ordinary people.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 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

Although the state’s prosecutors are made to seem almost ridiculous in the book, weren’t their judgments the same as those of the ordinary people the hero would face every day?

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers