normalness

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Noun
  • Guthrie did not mention the situation with her mother’s abduction, but indicated her game show duties will be another step toward normality.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026
  • Two weeks into the shaky, uncertain ceasefire, a form of normality has returned to the streets of Tehran.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Charles Wylie, the museum’s curator of photography, says the exhibit highlights the centrality of the Black experience in American history, from the tragedies to the mundaneness of family life.
    Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The everydayness of these items may also hold clues to their draw.
    Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Epic narratives worthy of a novel, as well as anecdotes of the quiet everydayness of everyday things, both grounding and inspiring.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Waymo’s self-driving cars have achieved mundanity on the streets of cities like Austin and Los Angeles, with London their next stop.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 May 2026
  • The Timberwolves lollygagged through the regular season, looking like a team that was above the mundanity of 82 games.
    Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • At the same time, Tacitus points readers to the prevalence and thus the normalization and commonness of this rhetoric, which can become an inseparable corollary of a program of making war.
    Timothy Joseph, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The biggest enemy of scientific progress isn’t groupthink at all, despite the commonness of this accusation.
    Big Think, Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In fairness, so did everyone else, and with the signing window coming to a close, the White Sox were able to nab Murakami for a (now bargain) two-year, $34 million deal.
    Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
  • In an individual sport, removed from any team dynamic, the results board made the fairness debate hard to ignore.
    Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • Forget the ordinariness of my face, the tip of the scar that peeks out of my sleeve.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Lane, though, not only captures Willy’s ordinariness and his ubiquity, which is no small achievement for so famous an actor, but also his optimism, his foundational, near-Trumpian belief in a coming Very Big Deal for either him or his sons.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026
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“Normalness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/normalness. Accessed 14 May. 2026.

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