ordinary
Example Sentences
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In the streets of Venezuela, ordinary people—delivery men and small-business owners, pensioners and vendors—said in interviews with The Wall Street Journal that they feel hopeful about the economy, their main concern.
His tableaux don’t always succeed, but when they do, their strangeness hints at things beyond ordinary ken.
"I am not a military man, I have never seen myself like that, and I did not understand how ordinary people could stand in the way of such a powerful enemy like Russia."
From BBC
Meanwhile, ordinary investors are faced with troubles of their own.
From MarketWatch
The population of the camp also included many ordinary civilians who ended up detained in the chaos at the end of Islamic State’s rule, according to a U.S. defense official and experts.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.