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Ordinary in sentence

1942 examples of Ordinary in a sentence

The really important thing about Gayla is she is ordinary.
The other 20, including the president and the premier, came from entirely ordinary backgrounds.
You see, shell companies, they're central to the secret deals which may benefit wealthy elites rather than ordinary citizens.
And the name of the protein I'd located was called mesothelin, and it's just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill type protein, unless, of course, you have pancreatic, ovarian or lung cancer, in which case it's found at these very high levels in your bloodstream.
In the 1930s, Roosevelt put thousands and thousands of Americans back to work by building bridges and infrastructure and tunnels, but he also did something interesting, which was to hire a few hundred writers to scour America to capture the stories of ordinary Americans.
Anna Deavere Smith famously said that there's a literature inside of each of us, and three generations later, I was part of a project called StoryCorps, which set out to capture the stories of ordinary Americans by setting up a soundproof booth in public spaces.
Like, why would you write about something so boring, so ordinary?
The 20th century has shown enormous cognitive reserves in ordinary people that we have now realized, and the aristocracy was convinced that the average person couldn't make it, that they could never share their mindset or their cognitive abilities.
So if we've got those evidence in our ordinary lives of the way that trust is differentiated, why do we sort of drop all that intelligence when we think about trust more abstractly?
Well every day, all over the place, it's being done by ordinary people, by officials, by institutions, quite effectively.
What matters is that people of different social backgrounds and different walks of life encounter one another, bump up against one another in the ordinary course of life, because this is what teaches us to negotiate and to abide our differences.
But it’s clear that hallucinatory experiences are much more closely tied to ordinary perception than we once thought.
We may not realize it in ordinary life, but the intensity of the Higgs field is critical for the structure of matter.
I am living proof that an individual can go head to head against the most powerful adversaries and the most powerful intelligence agencies around the world and win, and I think that's something that we need to take hope from, and we need to build on to make it accessible not just to technical experts but to ordinary citizens around the world.
So this takes that banding idea, takes that banding idea, it's highly visible, provides a highly disruptive profile, and is intended to prevent the shark from considering that you would be ordinary food, and potentially even create confusion for the shark.
But then they'd remember that you're but a mere human of ordinary, mortal intelligence that didn't finish university, and they'd kind of forgive you, and pet you like the dog.
We watch all those personalities being ordinary people like you and me, not demigods, and we see that history consists of their mistakes, fears, weaknesses, not only their "genius ideas."
Knowing history and understanding how ordinary people influenced history can help us create a better future, because history is just a rehearsal of what's happening right now.
Ordinary people matter.
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
I want a life that's out of the ordinary.
I wasn't doing anything that was out of the ordinary at all.
They're not doing anything out of the ordinary.
It's about 200 billion data points tracking what ordinary people think about other countries and why.
I'd like to share with you how ordinary things can become something magical and wondrous.
Ordinary women who did extraordinary things with the greatest of their courage, wisdom and humility.
Have you ever marveled at how someone you thought was so ordinary could suddenly become so beautiful?
I used to have the "Ordinary People" script that I'd flip through.
Look at the murder and mayhem in Mexico, Central America, so many other parts of the planet, the global black market estimated at 300 billion dollars a year, prisons packed in the United States and elsewhere, police and military drawn into an unwinnable war that violates basic rights, and ordinary citizens just hope they don't get caught in the crossfire, and meanwhile, more people using more drugs than ever.
Oleg, Vasiliy and Maxim were all ordinary men, with ordinary lives from ordinary towns.
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