as in normality
the state or fact of being the way things usually are
a combat-weary soldier longing for the normalcy of peacetime life
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In 2020, voters grew tired of the daily chaos wrought by Trump's presidency and COVID, and bet on Biden to guide the country back to normalcy.
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Zachary Basu, Axios, 10 Aug. 2024
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games, by contrast, aim at a return to normalcy.
—Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2024
The actual purpose seems to be forcing a status quo for other people’s comfort and, as Garza pointed out, respectability politics, because emo, goth and punk kids disrupt an aesthetic of normalcy.
—Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
At the Humane Society of Harford County in Fallston, there’s a respite — and sense of normalcy — following a spike in canine admissions last spring that taxed the staff’s resolve and cost the shelter nearly $100,000 in non-budgeted expenses.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2024
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Zachary Basu, Axios, 10 Aug. 2024
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games, by contrast, aim at a return to normalcy.
—Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2024
The actual purpose seems to be forcing a status quo for other people’s comfort and, as Garza pointed out, respectability politics, because emo, goth and punk kids disrupt an aesthetic of normalcy.
—Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
At the Humane Society of Harford County in Fallston, there’s a respite — and sense of normalcy — following a spike in canine admissions last spring that taxed the staff’s resolve and cost the shelter nearly $100,000 in non-budgeted expenses.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2024
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“Normalcy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/normalcy. Accessed 16 Sep. 2024.
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