standard

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The descriptor works for the artist’s latest album, “After Hours,” a collection of originals and standards that sees the 62-year-old Marx channel his inner, swinging Frank Sinatra.

From Los Angeles Times

After a planned overnight stay, the astronauts will travel to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, where they will begin standard postflight evaluations and physical reconditioning.

From Science Daily

While they are among the smallest black holes ever observed, they are still enormous by everyday standards, weighing up to 10 million times the mass of the Sun and stretching about ten million km across.

From Science Daily

Their latest, “Young Mothers,” isn’t one of their greatest, but at this point, the brothers largely are competing against their own high standards.

From Los Angeles Times

The hospital extended its "deepest sympathies" but in a statement denied any wrongdoing, stating its treatment met international standards.

From BBC