normalness

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Noun
  • Having fought a violent war, much of it behind enemy lines, Charles Shelby is now embracing normality.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 22 May 2026
  • The tariff refunds will help businesses get back to some semblance of normality.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 18 May 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
  • The minimum wage was a perfect test case for the trade-off theory of growth versus fairness—and the theory failed.
    Nick Hanauer, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026
  • Healy will no longer be able to rally the troops, but her legacy should inspire others to take up the call, demanding transparency, fairness and vision from the men and women who lead this community.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • Is there a positive case for being ordinary—a reason to actively pursue ordinariness, regardless of whether being great is overrated?
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
  • The very ordinariness of the image in the picture that Constable had painted had been a block to his professional advancement.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
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“Normalness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/normalness. Accessed 27 May. 2026.

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