normalness

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Noun
  • Away from the track, Friedrich is a working police officer, adding an air of normality to an all-time great athlete.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026
  • But after such an odd week to start F1’s on-track running in 2026, some normality will resume in two weeks at the first Bahrain test.
    Luke Smith, New York Times, 31 Jan. 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
  • The events are thrilling only in their pure mundanity.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The post garnered lots of attention, especially from people who noted the mundanity of the story.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 10 Mar. 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
  • Despite how difficult sitting through the case was, the jurors commended Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez for her fairness — and lead prosecutor Abbe Rifkin for fighting so hard for Quatisha.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Roberts said that, in fairness to the department, any database as large as the one handled by the Department of Revenue can create problems.
    Ben Wheeler April 10, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • In the end, though, what made the verdict remarkable was the relative ordinariness of Kaley’s story.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Normalness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/normalness. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.

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