as in usually
according to the usual course of things
ordinarily, I get off work at five, but this week I'm working late to meet a project deadline
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With this knowledge, Barker's team predicted that the next ice age would ordinarily take place in 10,000 years' time.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
The ordinarily strong driver did not have a good day off the tee.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
Hayley Pines, another Forest Service staffer, ordinarily served as a mule packer and wilderness ranger in Idaho’s Sawtooth National Recreation Area, earning about twenty dollars an hour.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
Every emotion feels like the opposite of what might ordinarily be expected.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
The ordinarily strong driver did not have a good day off the tee.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
Hayley Pines, another Forest Service staffer, ordinarily served as a mule packer and wilderness ranger in Idaho’s Sawtooth National Recreation Area, earning about twenty dollars an hour.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
Every emotion feels like the opposite of what might ordinarily be expected.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
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