standard

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Bob Dylan’s Instagram account used to feature the type of bland, standard content you’d expect from a legacy artist: “On this date” historical posts, tour announcements, box set advertisements.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

Made from a standard set of molds and held together by steel frames, most Muffler Men are assembled from three or four pieces.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Anyone standing near the fault during the largest triggered quakes, at -0.14, would have felt an acceleration of "1.5 G", or 1.5 times the standard acceleration due to gravity, Giardini said.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Macroscopicity allows scientists to evaluate experiments involving systems such as nano-oscillators, atomic interferometers, and nanoacoustic resonators by measuring how effectively they rule out even tiny deviations from standard quantum theory.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

It is a standard ploy of opponents of relativism to argue that we all share certain commonsensical capacities for reasoning, and thus we can all recognize better knowledge when we see it.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton