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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In the normal course of events, this would have led the aging warrior Paul von Hindenburg, Germany’s President, to appoint Hitler Chancellor.
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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
In the normal course of events, any token of reward for Mr. Biden would also likely be short-lived.
—WSJ, 18 June 2021
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
In the normal course of events of elegans populations reach their Malthusian limit or carrying capacity, and the chemical signals in the environment trigger a shift of many into an alternative morph which serves to flip the individual into stasis, the dauer.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2011
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
In the normal course of events, any token of reward for Mr. Biden would also likely be short-lived.
—WSJ, 18 June 2021
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
In the normal course of events of elegans populations reach their Malthusian limit or carrying capacity, and the chemical signals in the environment trigger a shift of many into an alternative morph which serves to flip the individual into stasis, the dauer.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2011
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