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norm

noun as in average, standard

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Lizzie has lived in Manchester for the past decade, where she said treatments such as fillers, jaw-line enhancement and Botox are the norm for many.

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The founders may have opted for more permissive language because they were relying on norms and a jealous legislative branch to constrain presidential adventurism.

He’s gone beyond transgressing political and presidential norms to openly trampling on the Constitution.

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If that happens, Republicans will have little credibility in objecting—and the Senate may never return to its previous norms.

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A majority of panelists indicated that managing headcount is still the norm at companies, rather than hiring.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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