as in normality
the state or fact of being the way things usually are
a combat-weary soldier longing for the normalcy of peacetime life
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These Americans tried to maintain some sense of normalcy amid harsh conditions in the unforgiving desert.
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Rachel Ng, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
No more masking, no more appealing to outdated definitions of normalcy, no more toning ourselves down for other people’s comfortability.
—Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
The final scene, in Episode 4, which sees the Miller family feign a day of normalcy on the occasion of Eddie’s fiftieth birthday, ends with the weeping father crumpled in his son’s bed, begging his forgiveness.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Erykah Badu remembers her last moments of normalcy.
—Damien Scott, Billboard, 19 Mar. 2025
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Rachel Ng, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
No more masking, no more appealing to outdated definitions of normalcy, no more toning ourselves down for other people’s comfortability.
—Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
The final scene, in Episode 4, which sees the Miller family feign a day of normalcy on the occasion of Eddie’s fiftieth birthday, ends with the weeping father crumpled in his son’s bed, begging his forgiveness.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Erykah Badu remembers her last moments of normalcy.
—Damien Scott, Billboard, 19 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for normalcy
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“Normalcy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/normalcy. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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