normal/ordinary course of events

noun phrase

: the way things usually happen

It's something you would never see in the normal/ordinary course of events.

Examples of normal/ordinary course of events in a Sentence

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Image Still, in the normal course of events, the death of a whale does not always signify an end. — Sruthi Gurudev Jules Jacobs, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025

In the normal course of events, this would not warrant transfer. — Carlos Castañeda, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2024

In the normal course of events, children take it for granted that their parents feed, clothe and educate them. — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024

In the normal course of events, this would have led the aging warrior Paul von Hindenburg, Germany’s President, to appoint Hitler Chancellor. — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024

No one wants to eat a lot, since there’s too much food in the normal course of events, but the difficulty is, there isn’t much to do apart from eat. — Nigella Lawson, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2023

In legal contracts, there is a clause called force majeure, which removes liability from unforeseeable and unavoidable catastrophes that may interrupt the normal course of events. — Andrew Rosen, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023

Instead of individual episodes that impinge upon a normal course of events, like bombs lobbed by an angry god, disasters are an ongoing and possibly permanent texture to our lives. — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2020