ordinary
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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
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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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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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