conventional
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She settled on her own plan to escape a conventional, 9-to-5 life: She would be a Rockette.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
They ended up trading concrete and a conventional lawn for Chateau Chaparral, a native garden anchored by drought-tolerant plants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
These states do not fit neatly into the conventional picture of particles built from quarks, the fundamental building blocks of matter.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
Tokenization refers to the use of blockchain-based tokens to represent shares in public companies, rather than traditional stock ownership routed through conventional brokers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
From Cicero onward, it has been conventional to divide up the business of oratory into five basic parts—sometimes known as the “canons of rhetoric.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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