ordinary
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It urbanised, ordinary people turned into entrepreneurs and businesses took off for the first time in the Communist nation.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
“Young adults consider ordinary conflict to be much worse than it once was,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The small house includes a functional kitchen, wood flooring, and a bathroom, allowing the researchers to recreate ordinary household cleaning activities.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Ill-advisedly, Wladyka introduces imaginary sequences in which Haru invents dance numbers out of ordinary situations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
This was no ordinary wolf, nor even a highly unusual wolf, but something far more strange and powerful.
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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Women kept ordinaries and taverns from early days.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle
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