normalcy

After a tumultuous year behind us, 2021 may feel like it holds promise for respite — perhaps, for some, even a return to some version of normalcy.

Foreign diplomats in Washington quietly welcomed the speech as a return to normalcy.

For many, it symbolizes safety, freedom, a return to normalcy, seeing friends, visiting, family and travel.

The College Board’s update on AP testing procedures, disclosed Thursday, seeks to bring the program at least a step toward normalcy even though basic operating conditions at schools across the country remain wildly uneven.

Amtrak is joining a growing list of companies offering cash or other incentives to essential workers as distribution of vaccines expands across the country and is hailed as a way to restore normalcy.

Still, the urge to seek a return to normalcy remains powerful, he said, and could drive more people in Syria toward the truces.

Normalcy and reality were keystones of the Republican agenda.

I grew up in Matthews, North Carolina, and saw it as a very normal upbringing, so I crave normalcy and a slower pace.

The normalcy of his domestic life was somehow surprising to me.

My normalcy has its own poignancy and beauty to it that most hearing people will  never know.

Perhaps you won't think so when you see me get back to normalcy.

But King Ferdinand was an unusually efficient king, and he spared no pains in his craving for normalcy.

The normalcy of this made my heart stop hammering, my heart catching up with my brain, and soon we were all sitting at the table.

He had to work out a plan that would solve everything and return the whole business to a state of normalcy.

We'll have tea and a talk as soon as I return to—to normalcy—that was Mr. Harding's way of expressing it, wasn't it?