ordinary
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So how should ordinary voters think about Proposition 40?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Using electron microscopy, which can reveal structures far too small to see with an ordinary light microscope, the team examined the surfaces of the buried materials.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” from the first season, depicted the effects of a power outage on an ordinary neighborhood and warned about the minds of mobs and the perils of prejudice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Some companies are also giving selected defenders access to capabilities not available to ordinary users.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Scientists from 2199 could die from an ordinary illness in another timeprint, for example, because they have no immunity against it.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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
What actually constitutes "immodest fashion" the Twelve Orders leave to be construed by the local ordinaries of dioceses, as circumstances may require.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But the ordinaries did scant business as lodging-places.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle
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