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ordinary

[awr-dn-er-ee] / ˈɔr dnˌɛr i /




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She then suggests using "ordinary emotional language to reflect back" what your teenager is saying to help you understand what they are feeling.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

Still, Acree noted that this would be no ordinary executive departure as Huang is synonymous with Nvidia, which he co-founded in 1993.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

This explanation fits the evidence better than ordinary wear, which generally smooths a coin's surface over time, or corrosion, which tends to remove or chemically alter material.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

It’s an unusually unglamorous, tightly wound performance, one that allows Johansson to disappear into an ordinary woman’s increasingly desperate circumstances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

It was just a plain ordinary unmarked letter addressed to Jonah.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

Was it a down special excursion, or a down special goods, I said, tremblingly, to myself, for I knew all the down ordinaries had gone for the night.

From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by John Henry Newman


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