normality

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Recent Examples of normality In Season 2, the Klatts are finally getting back to normality until Wanda is caught seemingly red-handed standing over a dead body. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 July 2026 Sometimes there’s no need to look any further than normality. Time, Time, 26 June 2026 Oil prices fell to their lowest level since the US-Israel war with Iran, as growing signs of a tentative return to normality through the Strait of Hormuz soothed markets. Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 25 June 2026 The second payment comes when expectations come back to normality. Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026 But normality is gauged by behavior, an individual’s social life. Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026 And, in the period since, a sense of normality has returned. Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 28 May 2026 The tariff refunds will help businesses get back to some semblance of normality. John Cassidy, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 Chloe Claudel, picking up on that thread, directs the play in a cleverly glitchy mode, giving you normality with sudden, jolting gestures that move it into territory that’s unsettling, hilarious, or oddly serene. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for normality
Noun
  • With the curfew in place, and the violence happening outside the campus gates, we had been locked up inside the thirty-acre university campus for two weeks and spent the time mostly inside our apartments, waiting for normalcy to return.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 July 2026
  • Part of the job, Shakira says, is maintaining some semblance of normalcy.
    Emma Banks, InStyle, 19 July 2026
Noun
  • On their own, these results would indicate a climate in which voters seem largely hesitant to change the tax status quo in one way or another.
    Paxton Honerkamp, CNBC, 21 July 2026
  • None of this requires defending a status quo that overprescribes, or dismissing legitimate science about metabolism and environment.
    Sunny Patel, STAT, 17 July 2026
Noun
  • The worsening air quality means significant changes to his daily routine.
    Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
  • This Hourglass set upgrades your entire routine with three of the brand's best-selling brushes.
    Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 18 July 2026

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“Normality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/normality. Accessed 26 Jul. 2026.

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