Ordinarily
adverb
In a usual or typical way, normally.
She ordinarily arrives at work at 9am.
Often appears as...
- ordinarily happens
- ordinarily appear
adverb
In a usual or typical way, normally.
She ordinarily arrives at work at 9am.
Often appears as...
- ordinarily happens
- ordinarily appear
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Pro Tip 1/3Expectation Setting
Use 'ordinarily' to set expectations about what usually happens, but allow for exceptions.
She ordinarily takes questions at the end, but today she started with a Q&A.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Absolute
'Ordinarily' indicates something that's common but not guaranteed; there can be variations.
Ordinarily, the park is quiet, but today there's a concert.
Pro Tip 3/3Comparative Context
Use 'ordinarily' when comparing a usual situation with a special or different case.
He would ordinarily ask for a report, but he needed a presentation this time.
Pro Tip 1/3Expectation Setting
Use 'ordinarily' to set expectations about what usually happens, but allow for exceptions.
She ordinarily takes questions at the end, but today she started with a Q&A.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Absolute
'Ordinarily' indicates something that's common but not guaranteed; there can be variations.
Ordinarily, the park is quiet, but today there's a concert.
Pro Tip 3/3Comparative Context
Use 'ordinarily' when comparing a usual situation with a special or different case.
He would ordinarily ask for a report, but he needed a presentation this time.
Pro Tip 1/3Expectation Setting
Use 'ordinarily' to set expectations about what usually happens, but allow for exceptions.
She ordinarily takes questions at the end, but today she started with a Q&A.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Absolute
'Ordinarily' indicates something that's common but not guaranteed; there can be variations.
Ordinarily, the park is quiet, but today there's a concert.
Pro Tip 3/3Comparative Context
Use 'ordinarily' when comparing a usual situation with a special or different case.
He would ordinarily ask for a report, but he needed a presentation this time.
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Steven Pinker: What our...
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The lost art of...
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Deborah Rhodes: A tool...
are rarely the product of one individual's genius. Rather, big ideas can be orchestrated, if you can simply gather people with different perspectives in a room and get them to talk about things that they don't ordinarily talk about.
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Why Is China Appointing...
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Michael Sandel: The lost...
underlying the majority's opinion. He said it's not possible to determine the essential nature of a game like golf. Here's how he put it. "To say that something is essential is ordinarily to say that it is necessary
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Rob Harmon: How the...
They would ordinarily support fish and other wildlife. They're the veins of the ecosystem, and they're often empty veins. I want to tell you the story of just one of these streams,
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Safari Live - Day 230 PIPE...
kinky tail but as I said another one of the lioness was mating with the bigger more impressive male from the old Anya pi ik male the gar kinky tail chose has got a bit of a receding hairline is not as impressive as his partner those two ordinarily we've seen in the only times I've ever seen them they've actually
Video examples
Steven Pinker: What our...
you try to get people who are not related to use the relationship type that would ordinarily be appropriate to close kin. Now, mismatches -- when one person assumes one relationship type, and another assumes a different one -- can be awkward. If you went over and you helped yourself
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Sanga Moses: Using Waste...
where we work with local women to sell this fuel back to the communities. These are everyday women. We go to these communities. We talk to local leaders. They help us identity marginalized women. Most of our women retailers are single mothers, widows, people who would not ordinarily
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Apocalyptic Weaponry PIPE...
ordinarily used in plumbing but Tim has uncovered a more defensive use okay I'm going to make a bow out of PVC the PVC has to be cut between four feet five feet your bow you have to tape the fiberglass rod otherwise it will crack and split if the economy collapsed you
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The lost art of...
Aristotelian premise underlying the majority's opinion he said it's not possible to determine the essential nature of a game like golf here's how he put it to say that something is essential is ordinarily to say that it is necessary
Video examples
Deborah Rhodes: A tool...
are rarely the product of one individual's genius. Rather, big ideas can be orchestrated, if you can simply gather people with different perspectives in a room and get them to talk about things that they don't ordinarily talk about.
Video examples
Using language and time...
appear using clocks that would ordinarily keep time to materialize the immaterial concept of timelessness wonder is a kinetic sculpture that's brought to life by the movement of other it uses a proximity sensor to form and
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Why Is China Appointing...
ordinarily, the last thing in life you want to get is a letter from the prosecutors. This, however, was a thank-you note, and what it said was "Thank you for your cooperation with us. As a result of cooperating with you,
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Michael Sandel: The lost...
underlying the majority's opinion. He said it's not possible to determine the essential nature of a game like golf. Here's how he put it. "To say that something is essential is ordinarily to say that it is necessary
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Rob Harmon: How the...
They would ordinarily support fish and other wildlife. They're the veins of the ecosystem, and they're often empty veins. I want to tell you the story of just one of these streams,
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Johannes P. Muller
German Scientist
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.
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Matt Lauria
American Actor
One of the great, truly extraordinary privileges of being an actor is to interact with individuals from all walks of life, you know, from avocations that you wouldn't ordinarily interact with or people you wouldn't ordinarily interact with.
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Johnny Vegas
British Comedian
Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.
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Mitt Romney
American Politician
I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.
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Leonard Susskind
American Physicist
The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe.
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John Forbes Nash, Jr.
American Mathematician
If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine myself as in a role of greater importance than I would seem to be ordinarily.
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Phil Lesh
American Musician
Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important.
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Max Richter
German Composer
When we go to sleep ordinarily, we're doing something really private. It's kind of an intimate, private connection with our sort of physical humanity.
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Stacey Dooley
English Director
One of the reasons I said yes to doing 'Strictly' was because it is so far removed from what I do for a living ordinarily.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
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Johannes P. Muller
German Scientist
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.
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Matt Lauria
American Actor
One of the great, truly extraordinary privileges of being an actor is to interact with individuals from all walks of life, you know, from avocations that you wouldn't ordinarily interact with or people you wouldn't ordinarily interact with.
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Johnny Vegas
British Comedian
Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.
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Mitt Romney
American Politician
I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.
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Leonard Susskind
American Physicist
The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe.
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John Forbes Nash, Jr.
American Mathematician
If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine myself as in a role of greater importance than I would seem to be ordinarily.
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Phil Lesh
American Musician
Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important.
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Max Richter
German Composer
When we go to sleep ordinarily, we're doing something really private. It's kind of an intimate, private connection with our sort of physical humanity.
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Stacey Dooley
English Director
One of the reasons I said yes to doing 'Strictly' was because it is so far removed from what I do for a living ordinarily.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
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