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ordinary

[awr-dn-er-ee] / ˈɔr dnˌɛr i /




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Supporters say he changed the course of their lives by providing information that ordinary families without resources would otherwise struggle to access.

From BBC

Both Kalshi and Polymarket’s U.S. entity are regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a tiny federal agency that has little experience overseeing markets where ordinary investors routinely trade.

From The Wall Street Journal

Withdrawals are taxed as ordinary income and are required after age 73 currently — moving, eventually, to 75.

From MarketWatch

The results show that the standard contrarian rebalancing strategy of selling winners and buying losers holds up well over time, but we are in anything but ordinary times.

From Barron's

To ordinary churchgoers, the God of medieval imagination appeared distant and inscrutable.

From The Wall Street Journal