normality

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Recent Examples of normality Banda’s first impulse was to maintain normality, stability, for the children. — Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026 Weiss has her own particular vision of American and international normality. — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026 The crimson hue that may have been visible at the height of the eclipse will gradually fade as the crescent of the lunar disk exposed to direct sunlight grows, and normality reasserts itself over the natural satellite. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026 By the time the world returned to relative normality, her priorities had shifted. — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026 But coming out of a pandemic that had robbed players of normality, a few days extra at the best tournaments felt doable, given the financial payoff. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 25 July 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for normality
Noun
  • Maintaining a sense of normalcy and a human connection with her constituents has become increasingly difficult as opponents have dialed up their ire—most recently, flocking to Collins’s Maine office to loudly protest July’s ICE shooting.
    — Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Banda’s first impulse was to maintain normalcy, stability, for the children.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The Gilded Age would generally prefer that nothing disrupt the basic contours of its serene status quo, where ladies in hats sit in drawing rooms and deliver smiling rebukes of one another’s decor.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
  • But any agreement that specifies which uses of AI are taboo would be better than a status quo that prohibits none.
    — NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • But acts like this work best when there’s a discernable back-and-forth—think Starlito’s deadpan baritone next to Don Trip’s sandpaper yawp, or Method Man’s sultry bruiser clearing the way for Redman’s scrappy smart-ass routine.
    — Dylan Green, Pitchfork, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The National Alliance on Mental Illness guide to holiday mental health recommends acknowledging difficult emotions, keeping steady routines and staying connected to others.
    — Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Oct. 2026

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“Normality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/normality. Accessed 3 Nov. 2026.

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