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Amid his anguish, Gallego wants to acknowledge the work of ordinary citizens.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Getting investors to look past the dazzle of artificial intelligence and data centers toward ordinary roads, bridges and cell towers is a fairly tall order these days.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
But many Zambians say the benefits have been slow to reach ordinary citizens.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
At ordinary temperatures, heat causes atoms to vibrate constantly.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
He tried to make himself yap and bark, but they came out as ordinary words.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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The only way in which ordinary shares can become ADRs is if someone were to convert ADRs to ordinaries and create room.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Ms. Wolfe started digging there and in other archives, and so far has gathered a dozen unknown or forgotten depictions of the arms in heraldic reference works called alphabets and ordinaries.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2016
Photograph: Courtesy of Susan Faludi If someone were to ask me to declare my identity, I’d say that, along with such ordinaries as nationality and profession, I am a woman and I am a Jew.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2016
Then 18 cardinals and 6,000 priests and ordinaries fell into line, bearing lighted candles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The tithing-man, that amusing but most bumptious public functionary of colonial times, was at first the official appointed to spy specially upon the ordinaries.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle
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